We have been sounding the alarm for quite some time about the disturbing direction Canadian medical advice has been heading for a number of years. For example, a Canadian Forces veteran was seeking treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and a traumatic brain injury when he was casually offered Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID).
Admittedly, the horror has to be overwhelming for socialists to complain. At the same time, the situation is deteriorating rapidly.
How could it be worse? Organ donation after the use of the MAID program has become increasingly common, making Canada a global leader in this particular area of…’medical care’.
To begin with, an American man in late-stage heart failure received the heart of a 38-year-old Canadian man with ALS who committed suicide through the MAID program earlier this year. This case is the first documented heart transplant performed using a donor who died under Canada’s euthanasia law.
Organs have been donated after MAID before, involving liver, kidney or lung transplants.“Here we report the first case of a successful cardiac transplantation after MAID,” a team of doctors from The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and The Ottawa Hospital report in the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation.The case involved a 59-year-old man with rapidly worsening heart failure who wasn’t expected to survive more than a month without a new heart….With organ donation after MAID, life-ending drugs usually must be administered in a hospital near an operating room because organs are recovered immediately after death is called. Time is of the essence to shorten the ischemic time — the elapsed time without blood flow to the organs before they can be transplanted into someone else.“Death was declared within seven minutes of initiating the MAID protocol,” the team wrote.
The trend lines indicate that “organ harvesting” is becoming more prevalent.
Since at least 235 people who died by MAID consented to organ donation in Canada, most commonly donating kidneys, livers, or lungs. Of 894 deceased donors in 2024, seven per cent (i.e., 62) donated after medically assisted suicide (per the ironically named “Canadian Institute of Health). A study reviewing the data between 2018 and 2022 showed a significant increase in MAID donors.
During the study period, MAiD donors represented 8.0% (64/803) of total deceased donors, increasing from 4.9% (8/164) in 2018 to 14.0% (24/171) in 2022.
There are many reasons to be concerned about these developments. Canadian officials promoted MAID to a man who had hearing loss. There is a move to make mental illness a potential condition of acceptance into this program.
At this point, Canadians have begun to push back.
Tamara Jansen, a member of Canada’s Parliament, can sense the growing momentum around legislation to stop the expansion of assisted suicide to those with mental illness.On July 9 she held a press conference in Langley City, British Columbia, to raise the public profile of the Right to Recover Act, or Bill C-218, which she has introduced.Since that event, “we are getting a lot of reaction online and through email,” Jansen, who as MP represents Cloverdale-Langley City, told The Catholic Register, Canada’s national Catholic newspaper based in Toronto.Many tell her “they are shocked” there is a law in place to expand — as of March 17, 2027 — medical assistance in dying, known as MAiD, to individuals solely living with a mental illness.
I have to say, being the global leader in organ harvesting tourism is grim goal.
I have real concerns that Canadian medical professionals and the bureaucrats in charge of the MAID program are shifting focus from expanding support and palliative options for the patients toward expedited organ retrieval to service foreigners who can pay.
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