WTH is Going on with “Death on Demand” in Canada? Alexander Raikin Explains Medically Assisted Death in the Great White North
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 1 March 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Canada’s euthanasia protocol – not merely doctor assisted suicide, but specifically euthanasia – is among the most expansive in the world. The euthanasia program, called Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) was enacted in 2016 and was, at its inception, already broad: in 2021 it accounted for 3.3% of all deaths in Canada, which is over 27 people per day, and eligibility included not just those with foreseeable death but also those with disabilities – like hearing loss. Now, Parliament is gearing up to expand the eligibility further, to include those with mental illness and even minors. For context, this makes Canada more accepting to euthanasia than the German public in 1933 under the Nazi regime. Not to mention, the deeper insidious motivation for an increasing number of MAiD cases in Canada: a social welfare network so threadbare that Canadian citizens would rather die than face abject poverty on top of a shambolic healthcare system. To coin a phrase, what the hell is going on?
Alexander Raikin is a freelance writer. He writes about medical ethics, and specifically about the Canadian medical system. He's written on Canada's euthanasia laws for National Review, New Atlantis, the Free Beacon, and others.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.0 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. Thanks for listening. Here's our show. What the hell's going on? What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? I don't know what the hell is talking about. You don't have to know what the hell is on it. What hell's the matter with these guys? We don't know what's going on. What hell's going on? |
| 0:01.1 | Who in God's name |
| 0:21.7 | knows what it's all about. Hi, I'm Daniel Pletka. And I'm Mark Thiessen. |
| 0:37.7 | Welcome to our podcast. What the hell is going on? |
| 0:41.3 | Mark, what the hell is going on? |
| 0:43.3 | What the hell is going on is we're trying to figure out what the hell is going on north of our border. |
| 0:47.6 | Because Canada is in a world of hurt in number of ways. |
| 0:52.5 | But one of them is they've enacted a new system called |
| 0:56.8 | Maid, Medical Assistance in Dying, which is killing about 27 people a day on average in Canada, |
| 1:04.5 | over 10,000 a year. And this is not medically assisted suicide like you've seen in a couple, |
| 1:11.9 | a handful of U.S. states where you have people who are, you know, |
| 1:15.1 | in the last throes of a terminal illness and are an incredible pain and are seeking a way |
| 1:20.5 | to end their life. |
| 1:21.6 | They're killing people who have disabilities. |
| 1:26.5 | They're killing people with mental illness. They're killing people who have disabilities. They're killing people with mental illness. They're killing people |
| 1:31.2 | who decide that they're on the verge of homelessness and the system is not going to be able to |
| 1:37.1 | help give them housing and they'd rather die than be homeless. So they're applying for and being |
| 1:41.8 | granted the ability to take their own life with medical assistance. |
| 1:45.8 | They are killing soldiers who came back from Afghanistan with PTSD but can't access health care. |
| 1:53.0 | And so their mental illness is not being treated and so they're being approved for medically |
| 1:57.8 | assisted suicide. People with mental illness generally or people with |
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