There is a reason why certain doors were never meant to be opened and why people warned that the slippery slope was not only real but that one was precariously close to it:
On November 18, College des medecins du Quebec tweeted that “#MAiD is not a moral, political or religious issue. It is a medical one.” Pardon the repetition, but the public has been shut out of the formation of policy on MAiD; now the medical profession of Quebec is saying that even the politicians aren’t supposed to have a say in the matter. Let us bear in mind that over the past 7 years, the entire policy on MAiD has been propelled by judicial pronouncements. Does the above statement amount to saying that even the courts shouldn’t have a say in MAiD? In any normal society, such a blatant and brazen grab for power would have led to widespread outrage – but in Canada, there has been nary a ripple of criticism, which tells us what kind of a society we have become.
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Revelations that some Canadian veterans have been offered medically assisted deaths while seeking help from the federal government are adding to worries about Ottawa’s plans to expand such procedures to include mental-health injuries and illnesses.
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Conservative MP Rob Moore suggested the government was moving too quickly on this front as there were clear indicators that doctors and hospitals were not ready.
“Are you willing to put the brakes on that expansion until, clearly, we get some guidelines in place that protect vulnerable Canadians?” He asked Lametti during testimony at a House of Commons committee Monday.
Lametti said he understood the concerns people have about the system and he has heard concerns the system is not being used appropriately. He said they have put good standards in place and it is up to doctors to follow those rules.
“It is up to the medical profession to ensure that those standards are met. It’s up to the medical profession to underline that MAID is about individual choice for people who qualify under the criteria that are there,” he said.
How is that for tanks, you b@$#@rd?!
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The woman featured in a glamourous pro-euthanasia commercial for a Canadian clothing retailer only opted for assisted suicide after her years-long attempts to secure proper health care failed, friends have revealed. ...
Last week, CTV confirmed that Hatch was the same woman who had spoken to them in June about her failed attempts to find proper treatment for Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a rare and painful condition in which patients suffer from excessively fragile skin and connective tissues.
“I feel like I’m falling through the cracks so if I’m not able to access health care am I then able to access death care?’ And that’s what led me to look into MAID,” Hatch told CTV in June under a pseudonym.
Like more than a million British Columbians, Hatch was left without primary care after her family doctor moved away. And so, after her Ehlers-Danlos diagnosis 10 years ago, Hatch’s treatment had largely consisted of a chaotic and ineffective stream of specialist appointments, none of whom had any background in her condition.
“It is far easier to let go than keep fighting,” she told CTV.
Even when it seemed apparent that her condition was terminal, Hatch noted that the B.C. health-care system hadn’t even been able to provide her with appropriate palliative care.
However, B.C. was quick to approve Hatch’s application for MAID. “There were no other treatment recommendations or interventions that were suitable to the patient’s needs or to her financial constraints,” reads a CTV excerpt of the MAID approval issued to Hatch by Fraser Health, the health agency serving B.C.’s Lower Mainland.
None of these complicating factors were mentioned in the Simons ad, which instead highlighted what it called the “hard beauty” of assisted suicide.
Karma: it will be quick to approve the cosmic kick to the @$$ that BC needs.
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Our lives are the government crop, always ripe for harvest. https://t.co/WQOLFtjF1T
— Katewerk (@katewerk) December 6, 2022
But at least we don't have the American system:
“Canada’s health-care system was not built to meet the challenges of our aging population. Canada’s Medicare system was established to deal largely with acute, episodic care for a relatively young population,” says the Canadian Medical Association. “Today our system struggles to properly care for patients — many of whom are elderly — managing complex and ongoing health issues. Approximately 75-80 per cent of Canadian seniors report having one or more chronic conditions.”
The CMA issued that warning seven years ago, arguing that not only is our system poorly designed to handle the massive wave of seniors, but that it wasn’t built for seniors at all. Most experts agree that if reforms are not enacted today, delaying the hard decisions will make it more difficult to ensure the viability of public health care.
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The three-day suspension of a Longueuil nurse sanctioned for eating a slice of peanut butter toast while on duty has been rescinded after the local health authority admitted “the measure was too severe for the act committed.”
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