Ray Pennings - Commentary: When Justice Minister David Lametti was a guest on the Toronto Star podcast “It’s Political” on Nov. 18, he stated that doctor-assisted suicide (euphemistically known as medical assistance in dying or MAiD) “provides a more humane way” for Canadians who are physically or mentally incapable of ending their own lives to do so. When asked if the state had [...]
Paul Tuns Amid a growing chorus of opposition to a scheduled March 17 expansion for medicalized killing for people who suffer solely from mental illness, federal Justice Minister David Lametti said he is open to working with opposition parties to pass an extension in order to develop protocols to allow people suffering from depression and other psychiatric disorders to access Canada’s Medical [...]
Canada and California have roughly the same population and both jurisdictions legalized euthanasia in 2016. In 2021, California killed 486 people by euthanasia while Canadian doctors medically killed 10,064 patients. Canada is killing people through its system of Medical Assistance in Dying at about 20 times the rate as California’s euthanasia regime. In Canada, one in 25 deaths is deliberately caused by [...]
Paul Tuns Back in 2017, the CBC assured viewers that it is a “misconception” that so-called Medical Assistance in Dying “puts vulnerable people at risk.” Five years later, what can be said assuredly about the CBC’s statement is that if anything, advocates for the vulnerable may have underestimated how wide the euthanasia net would capture not only patients within the medical system, [...]
Paul Tuns A current Conservative MP and the leader of the People’s Party of Canada have both condemned Canada’s permissive euthanasia laws that are resulting in people who have treatable conditions but living in poverty being approved for so-called Medical Assistance in Dying. Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis criticized Canada’s euthanasia regime as a money-saving measure the government is using to “rid society” [...]
Paul Tuns Bloc Quebecois, Liberal, and NDP members of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities rejected a motion by Conservative MP Rosemarie Falk (Battlefords-Lloydminster) to condemn child euthanasia. During Oct. 7 testimony at the Commons’ Special Joint Committee of Medical Assistance in Dying, Dr. Louis Roy of the [...]
Paul Tuns The National Post reported that unlike other jurisdictions that have legalized euthanasia, Canadians physicians are introducing the topic before patients broach the topic. Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, said this might be why "euthanasia deaths have increased so quickly in Canada" compared to countries like Belgium and the Netherlands. According to the 2021 official Medical Assistance [...]
Mobile abortuaries The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and returned the regulation of abortion to the states. Planned Parenthood had to rethink and regroup to ensure that its facilities continued to be available to pregnant moms. That is, it had to ensure that its annual revenue of $1.6 billion was not sacrificed. It’s OK to sacrifice unborn babies and their [...]
Last month, Dr. Louis Roy of the Quebec College of Physicians testifying at the Commons’ Special Joint Committee of Medical Assistance in Dying called for euthanasia for infants up to the age of one who are born with “severe malformations” and “grave and severe syndromes” when a physician reckons there is little chance for survival or whose suffering is deemed too much. [...]
Paul Tuns: On Oct. 5, Kelly Block's private member's bill, Bill C-230, The Protection of Freedom of Conscience Act, was defeated in a 203-115 vote. Every Conservative MP present for the vote, including leader Pierre Poilievre, voted for the bill, along with independent MP Kevin Vuong (Spadina-Fort York). All present Liberal, NDP, Bloc, and Green MPs voted against the bill. During debate [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Determining right and wrong for themselves, the godless have become their own gods – an aphorism with which I have been long acquainted. Another godly attribute which they seem to have bizarrely assumed: infallibility. Consider: Abortion and euthanasia are matters of life and death. Sex changes, while not quite as fatal, [...]
In defense of fatherhood The Florida legislature, at the urging of Governor Ron DeSantis, passed the Responsible Fatherhood law to help men become better fathers. Studies prove that children do best in a two-parent home where fathers are involved in their children’s lives and where children are statistically less likely to be abused or neglected and have fewer behavioral and psychological problems. [...]
Paul Tuns: On August 11, the Associated Press ran a 2300-word story, “’Disturbing:’ Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws,” which shone an international light on the country’s permissive euthanasia regime and how numerous families felt pressured to accept so-called Medical Assistance in Dying in lieu of proper medical care. Maria Cheng, the AP reporter, interviewed the families of Alan Nichols and Sean [...]
Paul Tuns: Health Canada released its “Third Annual Report on Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada (2021),” revealing that there were 10,064 euthanasia deaths, representing 3.3 per cent of all deaths in Canada and a 32 per cent increase over euthanasia deaths the previous year. The Health Canada report is based on data submitted by medical and nurse practitioners who carried out [...]
Paul Tuns: The 136-page Final Report of the Expert Panel on MAiD and Mental Illness was submitted to Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos and Justice Minister David Lametti on May 6. Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, said, “similar to previous ‘expert’ reports the Expert Panel offers recommendations but few clear guidelines.” He explained, “the 19 recommendations for implementing MAiD [...]