Canada the Cruel

To wit:

 

 

As one can see, it is cheaper to kill people off than it is to treat them.

At least in the US they do not hide that medical care costs real money.

 

Further:

Adults who want to use a mental illness as the sole basis for an assisted death will likely have to wait at least another three years, the Liberal government said Thursday.

(Sidebar: after the supposed election when Canadians may have forgotten about this or at least found the idea of killing off the mentally ill palatable.)

Health Minister Mark Holland introduced legislation that, if passed, would postpone the government’s plan to expand the medical assistance in dying program until March 2027.

It would be the second such delay for the expansion, after Liberals added a year to the timeline just before the change was supposed to take effect last March.

Now, the next implementation date is being pushed well past the next federal election, which must happen no later than fall 2025.

 

According to Mark, there must be a "deeper conversation" about killing off those onerous and expensive patients. 

How does one start such a conversation?

Like this: "Why are we still fighting certain veterans groups in court? Because they're asking for more than we are able to give right now," ...   or  pointing out the long line of cancer patients STILL waiting for treatment?

God forbid that we should put any moral brakes on this:

The office of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Montreal has filed a legal challenge against Quebec’s end-of-life legislation, arguing it violates religious freedom.

The lawsuit says the Catholic Church should be exempted from a section of the law requiring all palliative care homes in the province to offer medical assistance in dying.

It says the law is forcing the Catholic Church to choose between allowing a procedure it finds morally unacceptable or abandoning its palliative care centre, called St. Raphael’s.

Since 2019, St. Raphael’s has sent patients requesting MAID to provincially run facilities, but the church says it should not be forced to provide medically assisted deaths on its property.

The office of the Archbishop Christian Lepine says palliative care homes should have the same right as medical practitioners to refuse to offer services they are morally opposed to.

The Quebec palliative care association said in March that there were only four palliative care facilities in the province that didn’t offer MAID.

 

One party is offering compassionate care and dignity in the face of dying.

The other can't wait to unload an expensive corpse. 

But it looks like the numbers will already take care of this problem for now:

But now, health officials are slow-walking plans to expand the program, stating there are not enough doctors, specifically psychiatrists, in Canada to evaluate mentally ill people who wish to die, according to the announcement made by Health Minister Mark Holland and Justice Minister Arif Virani. This followed a meeting of the special parliamentary committee looking into the plan, the Times reported. 

"The system needs to be ready, and we need to get it right," Holland told reporters. "It's clear from the conversations we've had that the system is not ready, and we need more time."

 

How do you kill people the right way, Mark?