Too Fast, Too Soon? Canada’s Medically Assisted Suicide Cases Reveal Potential Coercion, Rushed Decisions
Official report of Medical Assistance in Dying cases reveal troubling story of elderly woman who wanted palliative care was euthanized at the request of her husband.
In my most recent report on Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program, I noted that the U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) leadership is sharply criticizing Canada’s MAID program, which is now linked to organ donation, with one top official calling it a “strange new horror” and a cautionary example for other countries.
Now, even more disturbing revelations about the program are being made, which underscore the correctness of every concern expressed about this program.
Ontario’s chief coroner has released two new reports from the province’s interdisciplinary MAID Death Review Committee, examining same‑ or next‑day provision of MAID and the use of waivers of final consent. The committee’s mandate was to look beyond individual files to the patterns they reveal.
Several of the cases reveal that the process for some included coercion and rushed decisions. The first case related to this report that caught my eye involved “Mrs. B”:
An elderly woman in Canada was euthanized only hours after telling doctors she wanted to live and receive hospice care instead.
She had become very ill after heart surgery and was being cared for at home by her elderly husband, who doctors noted was experiencing “caregiver… pic.twitter.com/d3pnWUm1q9
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) January 24, 2026
Mrs. B was a woman in her 80s in Ontario who had serious complications after surgery and was being cared for at home by her elderly husband. She initially opted for palliative care and, during a MAID assessment, told an assessor she preferred palliative care because of her personal and religious values and did not want euthanasia at that time.
Her husband was documented as experiencing “caregiver burnout,” and a physician requested inpatient palliative/hospice care, but the hospice request was denied because she did not meet the criteria for end‑of‑life admission.
Once the hospice admission was declined, her husband requested an “urgent” MAiD reassessment, saying he could no longer cope with caring for her at home. This is what happened next:
A different MAiD assessor from the previous day completed a primary assessment and determined Mrs. B to be eligible for MAiD. The former MAiD practitioner was contacted. This MAiD practitioner expressed concerns regarding the necessity for ‘urgency’ and shared belief for the need for more comprehensive evaluation, the seemingly drastic change in perspective of end-of-life goals, and the possibility of coercion or undue influence (i.e., due to caregiver burnout).
The initial MAiD practitioner requested an opportunity to visit with Mrs. B the following day to re-assess; however, this opportunity was declined by the MAiD provider due to their clinical opinion that the clinical circumstances necessitated an urgent provision. Additional MAiD practitioner was arranged by the MAiD coordination service to complete a virtual assessment.
Mrs. B was found eligible for MAiD by this third assessor. The provision of MAiD was completed later that evening.
As Mrs. B was euthanized that night, most committee members believed the time and evaluation taken before Mrs. B’s euthanasia were insufficient, given her circumstances.
Then there is the case of Mr. C, a person with a serious illness whose MAID request and provision occurred very close together. The palliative care involvement was minimal and largely reactive, and the MAID assessor arrived while the patient was being treated with opioids.
On this same day, a MAiD practitioner arrived at the hospital to complete a MAiD eligibility assessment. The MAiD practitioner was advised by the medical care team that Mr. C had an altered cognitive state and likely had lost capacity for healthcare decisions.
Due to a previous expressed request for MAiD, the MAiD practitioner proceeded to vigorously rouse Mr. C, who opened his eyes and mouthed “yes” to the
MAiD practitioner’s inquiry of his request for MAiD. After withholding his opioid analgesia and medications for sedation for 45-minutes, Mr. C was documented to be more alert (observed to have “eyes open”). The MAiD practitioner completed the initial MAiD assessment through a series of short verbal statements (“yes”) and non-verbal (documented ‘head nods and blinking’) confirmatory responses.The MAiD practitioner facilitated a virtual second assessment, where the first MAiD practitioner was present and provided the medical history and illness trajectory. The second MAiD practitioner also found Mr. C eligible for MAiD. The provision of MAiD occurred following confirmation of final consent via “mouthing the word ‘yes’” and nodding his head in [presumed] agreeance”.
This report offers cautionary examples where, had there been better pain and symptom management, thorough mental health treatment, reduced institutional constraints, and more time, the individuals might have chosen life. Furthermore, euthanasia in these situations may been the result of other people’s choices.
But at least the healthcare is “free”.
Imagine believing that CANADA has FREE healthcare 🤯 in reality after paying significant TAXES for healthcare, high number of Canadians have to travel abroad to actually get care, OR also possibly DIE waiting for care
This is Canada 🇨🇦 pic.twitter.com/yscPHqIfEa
— Melissa 🇨🇦 (@MelissaLMRogers) January 13, 2026
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The woman explicitly said she didn’t want to die, and yet the husband asked the state to kill her.
This was straight up government assisted MURDER.
Well, the husband ain’t exactly innocent.
The Terri Schiavo case was another stone-cold killing by the State. In this case Terri had no living will or directive that indicated what she would want in the case of being incapacitated.
But her husband Michael Schiavo – who was already involved with another woman and had had at least one child with her – wanted her out of the way so he could marry again. Enter Judge George Greer, a ghoul who would have been at home as an administrator at Auschwitz and arguably the real villain of the case. Despite the lack of a living will or medical directive, despite the family’s pleas to be allowed to care for her, and despite Terri’s husband’s sleazy and obvious motive to want Terri dead, the judge ordered the execution be carried out.
Worst of all: Greer ordered death by dehydration – a form of execution so painful and prolonged no court in the land would permit it for the worst of the worst on Death Row. But for a woman who had committed no crime and could not speak for herself Greer was content to torture her to death.
Death by dehydration is the most common form of ‘care’ received at hospices.
Drugs are administered to keep the patient from noticing.
It is why so many people’s last moments with a loved one are with an emaciated thing with a gaping mouth that can barely react to any stimuli.
The medical profession has gone very far down the wrong path.
Canadians have to travel abroad to actually get care
But the good news is……….
they can DIE at home through Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying program,
MY niece, a USAF veteran, moved to Canada with her Canadian husband where she ultimately obtained citizenship.
A few years ago she started experiencing shortness of breath. The Canadian health system waltzed her around for months before finally discovering stage 4 ovarian cancer. Then it waltzed her around for months before assigning her to “BC Cancer” which provides all cancer care in British Columbia.
After repeated attempts to receive some care from BC Cancer, she returned to the US and was able to get immediate care from the VA. She has had several recurrences, but she is still in the fight.
No question that BC Cancer’s plan for her was MAID.
The depressing pattern of government-run healthcare is well-established;
1. Create a huge, pricy government-run system with lots of fanfare and self-congratulations that severely restricts or eliminates private care.
2. Make sure the ruling party’s cronies and bootlickers get the fat government contracts associated with the new Byzantine system.
3. Despite 24/7 media disinformation to the contrary, the quality and availability of healthcare starts declining almost immediately as waiting times for even routine procedures and checkups grow without limit.
4. About this time government-funded hospitals and clinics start to become squalid, disgusting, and unsafe. The shortage of doctors and nurses grows.
5. After a series of costly government bailouts (which fail to stem the tide of declining quality and availability) the government legalizes “voluntarily” medically assisted suicide.
6. The growing shortage of qualified medical personnel leads to drastically lowering standards and importing whomever they can find from Third World sh*tholes where medical education is primitive at best. The proles’ access to emergency care and lifesaving procedures dwindles to almost nothing.
7. Behind the scenes “voluntary” medically assisted suicide becomes involuntary. <– Canada is here
8. As the system deteriorates the mandarins start going to foreign countries – including hated AmeriKKKa – to get the care no longer available in their own fetid healthcare system. If the proles have any money of their own they do the same.
9. Across the globe media and academic all pretend none of this is happening. Instead, they natter on …. and on …. and on about the "breakthrough government healthcare system in North Bulimia" or whatever name the unfortunate location goes by.
Not providing care is one way of reducing medical costs. Killing the patient is a faster way of reducing medical costs. You have to love socialism.
The irony of my niece’s case is that Canada’s “universal health care” was one argument that her husband used to convince her to move to Canada.
Where does Ms. Sarah Palin go for her apology?
“Reviewers later said the short timeline failed to properly examine her true wishes, with the case raising serious questions about Canada’s approach to euthanasia.”
Well, when you subsidize something, you get more of it.
“the MAiD practitioner proceeded to vigorously rouse Mr. C, who opened his eyes and mouthed “yes” to the MAiD practitioner’s inquiry of his request for MAiD.”
You have to say yes or the MAiD don’t get PAiD.
rephrase reagan time:
Im here from the government and I want to abort you
you know its trouble time when they open up a wing called the
scott peterson hall
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