“Euthanasia advocates tend to advance their cause by requesting that panels of “experts” or lawmakers conduct oh, so careful studies to recommend policies that, invariably, would legalize assisted suicide or expand it where already allowed. These are stacked decks; activities choreographed to reach a particular conclusion.”
In February 2023, the Canadian government discussed plans to increase the numbers of citizens eligible for its euthanasia program. Already included were:
- terminally ill adults
- chronically ill adults
- people with disabilities
- senior citizens
- mentally ill, the latest group
Not only of child suicide being discussed, it is being planned in precise, chilling, exact detail, with legal structures being set into place, so that history will look back upon these Canadian doctors, lawyers, and government officials, and say, “The Canadian people wanted that to happen.” No one will be held accountable. They receive financial rewards for their time spent planning this. They will get government pensions.
All in all, these Canadians do a lot better at maintenance of self-reputation than the Germans or the Japanese people did after World War 2. We have to hand it to them for a fine organizational sense, a tenacious hold upon the purse strings of their own tax-payers, and an iron-clad grip upon their perfect international reputation.
Canadians are Nice. Canada is Perfect. This adoration allows wrong doings to flourish here, if the perpetrators are careful. So, let’s look at the published government reports, paid for by taxpayers, so you are free to quote and reprint at your blogs, websites, or as Adobe PDFs. All government information openly posted is paid for by the public.
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The Government Report on MAID for Mature Minors, i.e., Children Under Age 21
Recommendation 14: That the Government of Canada undertake consultations with minors on the topic of MAID, including minors with terminal illnesses, minors with disabilities, minors in the child welfare system and Indigenous minors, within five years of the tabling of this report.
Recommendation 15: That the Government of Canada provide funding through Health Canada and other relevant departments for research into the views and experiences of minors with respect to MAID, including minors with terminal illnesses, minors with disabilities, minors in the child welfare system* and Indigenous minors, to be completed within five years of the tabling of this report.
Recommendation 16: That the Government of Canada amend the eligibility criteria for MAID set out in the Criminal Code to include minors deemed to have the requisite decision-making capacity upon assessment.
Recommendation 17: That the Government of Canada restrict MAID for mature minors to those whose natural death is reasonably foreseeable. . ..
Recommendation 19: That the Government of Canada establish a requirement that, where appropriate, the parents or guardians of a mature minor be consulted in the course of the assessment process for MAID, but that the will of a minor who is found to have the requisite decision-making capacity ultimately take priority.
- Child welfare system cruelly means that children have no mothers and fathers, no permanent home, no foster parents – are eligible for suicide planning.
- Children in the child welfare who have parents elsewhere may have mental distress from sexual abuse, physical abuse, homelessness. They are eligible for suicide planning if they have depression or mental illness, due to the combination of so many new laws in Canada.
This now is the LAW being formed in the country of Canada. It is not my opinion, my problem, it is a serious situation. Some groups are trying to stop this, many people do not how serious the problem is.
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Toronto: The Hospital for Sick Children, 2018 Child Suicide, No Parental Consent
Excerpt: “Medically Assisted Dying in a Paediatric Hospital,”, Journal of Medical Ethics, Oxford:
“If, however, a capable [legally underage] patient explicitly indicates that they do not want their family members involved in their decision-making, although healthcare providers may encourage the patient to reconsider and involve their family, ultimately the wishes of capable patients with respect to confidentiality must be respected. If we regard MAID as practically and ethically equivalent to other medical decisions that result in the end of life, then confidentiality regarding MAID should be managed in this same way.
In order to protect staff members from potential violence and social harassment, we will not make public the names of the healthcare providers at The Hospital for Sick Children who have volunteered to provide MAID, nor will we disclose a full list of persons who comprised our working group.
We will, however, as an institution, publicly discuss the provision of MAID in an effort to normalise this procedure and reduce social stigma for everyone involved. It is right and appropriate for this duty to fall to a well-resourced institution rather than rest on the shoulders of individual patients and providers.”
I am indebted to an old article in 2018 by the American Wesley J. Smith for alerting us so early. Ignoring his work allowed these plans to proceed uninterrupted, as Canada denied plans to bring assisted suicide to children, with no parental consent. Smith is righteously angry as he imagines a parent of an ill child turning up at the hospital to find their child killed, by a doctor or nurse, and not even allowed to know the name of the killer. (Read the above item, issued in 2018, by the Canadian children’s hospital.)
Surely, some doctors and nurses will have a preference for this work, over others? The amount of people they treat will be noticed in a government dossier; their own post-death reactions studied for future projects. Their work activities and the zeal in which they perform them will never be known to any of us. Even the inmates of Dachau and Auschwitz could discuss the names of their guards, supervisors, and soldiers. Freely, and later write about them, and accuse them.
Canadians are denied the right to fight back, by the silence of their own media.
To end the life of a child with such ease? With no regard for the feelings of the mother or father? How easy then to end the life of a senior, a handicapped, a depressive, a sex trade worker, an alcoholic, or an unemployed? Maybe the doctor or nurse is biased towards certain races or religions or cultures? Oh, wait! We are the perfect multi-cultural country.
“The article is long… the gist is that the ground is being prepared to change the law to allow Canadian doctors to kill minors — and apparently doctors have already volunteered to do the killing. Horrific. Immoral. And written in such dispassionate and sterile prose that reading the article chills the blood.”
Wesley J. Smith, Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism, Child Euthanasia Without Parental Approval Pushed for Canada, October 2, 2018
Source: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/child-euthanasia-without-parent-approval-pushed-for-canada/
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The Government Report on MAID for Mature Minors, The Lawyer Who Advises
To: Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying,
Statutory Review of the Provisions of the Criminal Code Relating to Medical
Assistance in Dying and their Application
From: Constance MacIntosh, Full Professor, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University,
Nova Scotia
Recommendation: The Committee should remove the requirement from the Criminal Code
that candidates for Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) be at least 18 years old.
This is for the following reasons, elaborated upon below.
1. The MAID regime should always turn on the actual capacity of any person requesting
MAID
2. The MAID regime’s approach to consent and capacity should be consistent with
Canadian law on health care decision-making by minors
3. The MAID regime will likely be found unconstitutional if it maintains an age-based bar
4. The vulnerability of youth may require a different approach but does not justify an age-
based bar
5. Removing the age bar is consistent with the recommendations of expert panels.
All expert panels with a mandate to make recommendations have endorsed a
capacity-based approach to MAID, and rejected an age-based bar. These include the
2010 Expert Panel of the Royal Society of Canada recommended MAID legislation
reflect the law on mature minors for making decisions about medical procedures.
Quebec’s 2013 Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse
found an age bar would violate Quebec’s’ Charter and recommended rules in line
with provincial laws for mature minors. The 2015 Provincial-Territorial Expert
Advisory Group on Physician-Assisted Dying recommending avoiding an age-based
criteria and instead focus on competence.
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The friends and co-workers are a very small group of Canadians whose names appear over and over on this plan to bring in the world’s most extreme “assisted dying” programme: and they appear on these three Panel of Experts.
They are also linked to the Hospital for Sick Children:
“In order to protect staff members from potential violence and social harassment, we will not make public the names of the healthcare providers at The Hospital for Sick Children who have volunteered to provide MAID, nor will we disclose a full list of persons who comprised our working group.”
Fact: it’s true, they want the age lowered to 12, or lower and to remove parental consent, sometimes.