Doctors Warn About The Plan to Euthanize Mentally Ill In Canada
Top Canadian doctors are now sounding the alarm over the push to euthanize millions of mentally ill patients, warning that the government wants to reduce the human population under the guise of making the healthcare system more efficient
During a special committee meeting on the Canadian government’s assisted suicide program, also known as Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), Dr. Sonu Gaind, a clinical professor at the University of Toronto’s department of psychiatry and addiction, and Dr. Trudo Lemons, chair of health law and policy at the same school, dismantled legal arguments and “reassurances” from the program’s advocates.
Junonews.com reports: In his opening remarks to the committee on the eligibility of persons whose sole underlying medical condition is mental illness, Gaind exposed flaws in the euthanasia program’s data tracking, as it doesn’t screen for suicidal risk factors.
He stated there’s evidence showing “strong suicide risk factors” were fueling “Track 2 MAiD,” which allows those whose death is not “foreseeable” to access state-facilitated suicide.
He warned that more women than men are accessing “Track 2 MAiD,” noting that women are more likely to attempt suicide than men, but men are more likely to complete their suicide attempts.
He said these problems will only worsen if state-facilitated medical suicide is provided for people with mental illness and addiction issues.
Gaind noted that several international groups monitoring Canada have warned against including mental illness as a sole criterion for medical suicide access. He cited a statement from the International Association for Suicide Prevention, which concluded that due to the inability to predict who will have a poor or hopeless prognosis and who will substantially improve with or without treatment for mental illness, Canada “should not allow psychiatric euthanasia.“
Under the assisted suicide program, Track 1 is for individuals whose natural death is reasonably foreseeable, allowing for a faster assessment process and the option to waive final consent if the patient risks losing mental capacity.
In contrast, Track 2 is for those with a serious and incurable condition whose death is not reasonably foreseeable.
“This is not about partisanship. This is about evidence. In contrast, the same people who wrongly claimed in 2024 and earlier in 2023 that we were ready, then are again claiming we are ready now, the accumulated evidence shows they are even more wrong now than they were in the past,” Gaind said.
“On one hand, we have increasing evidence that we’re not ready to safely provide psychiatric euthanasia. On the other hand, you may get a consensus of ideologues ignoring that evidence and proposing ways to provide MAiD for mental illness anyway. That is not readiness. That’s snake oil.”
Dr. Mona Gupta, a full clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Addiction at the Université de Montréal and who advises clinicians assessing euthanasia applicants, said clinicians are ready to roll out assisted suicide for those with mental disorders.
She stated that doctors have lengthy conversations with applicants, request medical records, often consult with multiple doctors, including those currently treating the patient, and claim they would wait until an individual was not in “a state of crisis” before providing them with assisted suicide.
Giant blasted her “reassurances,” stating that reassurances are neither “evidence” nor “safeguards” against putting the wrong person to death.
After being grilled by Conservative MP Andrew Lawton, Gupta, who is an advocate for the program, revealed that individuals with major depressive disorder and eating disorders “could potentially qualify” for the sole reason someone accesses state-funded medical suicide if the program is expanded as scheduled in 2027.
Jocelyn Downie, professor emeritus of law and medicine at Dalhousie University, argued that Canadian courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada, already recognize mental health as a “grievous and irremediable condition,” meeting both qualifications for the medical dying program. She said banning assisted suicide for mental illness was unconstitutional and discriminatory.
Despite this, Lemmens, a medical law professor at the University of Toronto, completely rejected Downie’s claims and noted that the cases she cited specifically revolved around end-of-life dying, in other words, “Track 1 MAiD” and had nothing to do with mental illness.
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Editor’s note: we should all know by now in which direction the Canadian government leans, and this proposal smacks of influence by the World Economic Forum, who have made no secret of their desire to reduce the human population by 85 percent.
Anapat
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Once upon a time, a mentally ill dictator in Germany made a similar decision; tragically, he excluded himself from his own program targeting the mentally ill. In Russia, individuals with mental illness are treated with reverence.
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Doogie Howser
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Herr Hitler wasn’t mentally ill . He was a red herring allied with Stalin , Churchill, and President Rosenfeld to get rid of Germans and slavs. In 1935 censuses from all across Europe there were only 5,750,000 listed chosenites . In the 4 years after the war ended , 4,850,000 (((chosenites))) were recorded coming through Ellis Island.
Study some history , quit believing the propaganda you’ve been fed since that war ended .
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Doogie Howser
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The Rosenfelds changed their name to Roosevelt shortly after arrival in the late 18th century .
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Doogie Howser
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The Rosenfelds changed their name to Roosevelt shortly after arrival in America in the late 18th century .
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Michael J
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Psychiatry is a harmful pseudoscience with no cures. Just look at the “treatments” they invented: lobotomy, ECT etc.
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very old white guy
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Was made aware of a few interesting facts about the new M A D program in Canada. I say M A D because it is indeed quite mad.
The cause of death is never to be listed as M A i D on a death certificate in Ontario, only the underlying cause that was used to request government assisted suicide. Therefore the public will have no idea how many people are being killed by the government policy.
Organs are now being used from M A D recipients. How long before this hurries up the process.
About 95% of all those requesting M A i D are white Canadians.
When they kill you they give you a drug that paralyzes the complete body, then another drug is given and the lungs fill with liquid and you drown. Apparently it is unknown if the person is conscious at that point in time.
We have become and evil people under the guise of compassion.
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Seriously
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What a terrifying way to end! That description alone would put me off…sounds medieval!
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Seriously
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OK VOG, looked this up because it disturbed me no end. The 3 drugs used in this order are Midazolam, Propofol, then Rocuronium, which indeed paralyzes all muscles- after the anxiety drug, then the anesthesia drug have been administered. There are a few others that can be used in place of. No one drowning, all known to be n longer concious.
I don’t condone randomly doing this to mentally ill patients…informed consent and all that. I did see a documentary about a mentally depressive woman who chose to end her life in this manner…had to travel conscious.
That said, if a person wishes to end their life, fully involved and capable of making that choice, they should be able to do so at their comfort – not have to resort to a gun, a blade or a bridge.
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Seriously
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OK VOG, looked this up because it disturbed me no end. The 3 drugs used in this order are Midazolam, Propofol, then Rocuronium, which indeed paralyzes all muscles- after the anxiety drug, then the anesthesia drug have been administered. There are a few others that can be used in place of. No one drowning, all known to be n longer concious.
I don’t condone randomly doing this to mentally ill patients…informed consent and all that. I did see a documentary about a mentally depressive woman who chose to end her life in this manner…had to travel conscious.
That said, if a person wishes to end their life, fully involved and capable of making that choice, they should be able to do so at their comfort – not have to resort to a gun, a blade or a bridge.
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Tom
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We often hear that within the medical/dentistry industry there are many who want to commit suicide and some do. Is that not a mental illness? Will any of these guys have the guts to MAiD themselves? Hardly…MAiD is for the peons and the slaves.
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Aaron
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Could be those wanting to live in this sick society are the mentally ill
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
Krishnamurti
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Seriously
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OK VOG, looked this up because it disturbed me no end. The 3 drugs used in this order are Midazolam, Propofol, then Rocuronium, which indeed paralyzes all muscles- after the anxiety drug, then the anesthesia drug have been administered. There are a few others that can be used in place of. No one drowning, all known to be n longer concious.
I don’t condone randomly doing this to mentally ill patients…informed consent and all that. I did see a documentary about a mentally depressive woman who chose to end her life in this manner…had to travel conscious.
That said, if a person wishes to end their life, fully involved and capable of making that choice, they should be able to do so at their comfort – not have to resort to a gun, a blade or a bridge.
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Seriously
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Sorry for the multiples…issue on submit comment
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