Quebec Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette

From LifeSiteNews

By Anthony Murdoch

The province has the highest rate of MAiD in Canada, with a 17 percent increase in 2023 alone and 5,686 deaths reported. This represents a staggering 7.3 percent of all deaths in the province that year and means that Quebec has the highest euthanasia rates in the world.

The Quebec government said it will soon allow early “advance” requests for euthanasia even though it is still not allowed by federal law.

Starting October 30, Quebec residents will be able to request Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in advance. The provincial law to allow MAiD in advance was passed in June 2023 and came with a timeline stating that it had to be put into force within 24 months.

On September 7, provincial Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette of the Coalition Avenir Québec government said in a statement to the media that all residents in the province will soon be able to ask for advance MAiD requests. In August, senior ministers from the provincial government said they would not “wait any longer” for Canada’s federal Criminal Code to be amended to allow the change.

As it stands, the federal government has not approved MAiD by advance request, meaning it is not legal.

When it comes to criminal law, this falls under federal jurisdiction, which promoted Jolin-Barrette, as reported by CBC, going as far as to ask the Crown’s Prosecution Office to not lay any charges when medical personnel terminate the life of a person who has asked for an advance request.

Canadian Health Minister Mark Holland, recently asked about Quebec going ahead with its new MAiD rules, said the government is “still evaluating it because we’ve just received it, and it’s important that we have a conversation as a society about the implications of this.”

In Canada, there are two euthanasia laws, those passed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government and those in Quebec, which passed Bill 11 in 2023. The bill expands MAiD to those with a serious physical disability and mandates hospices offer the procedure in addition to allowing euthanasia by advance request.

As it stands today, Quebec has the highest rate of MAiD in Canada, with a 17 percent increase in 2023 alone and 5,686 deaths reported. This represents a staggering 7.3 percent of all deaths in the province that year and means that Quebec has the highest euthanasia rates in the world.

When it comes to MAiD, Trudeau’s Liberal government sought to expand it from the chronically and terminally ill to those suffering solely from mental illness.

However, in February, after pushback from pro-life, medical, and mental health groups as well as most of Canada’s provinces, the federal government delayed the mental illness expansion until 2027.

Overall, the number of Canadians killed by lethal injection since 2016 stands at close to 65,000, with an estimated 16,000 deaths in 2023 alone. Many fear that because the official statistics are manipulated the number may be even higher.

From LifeSiteNews

By Anthony Murdoch

In 2,220 pages of documents obtained via an access to information request by Rebel News, records show that Veterans Affairs Canada took steps to avoid a paper trail after suffering service members accused the department of promoting euthanasia.

The federal department in charge of helping Canadian veterans appears to have purposefully prevented the existence of a paper after scandalous reports surfaced alleging that caseworkers had recommended euthanasia to suffering service members.

In 2,220 pages of documents obtained via an access to information request by Rebel News, records show that Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) chose to use verbal updates, as opposed to written updates, when speaking to senior staff, seemingly to prevent the creation of a paper trail related to allegations that department caseworkers were recommending Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) to veterans instead of offering them full treatment.  

The documents and their contents come after a number of veterans, who were dealing with acute post-traumatic stress disorder, came forward saying that their caseworkers told them they should apply for MAiD. 

Indeed, the original delay in expanding MAiD for those suffering solely from mental illness came after numerous public scandals surrounding the deadly program, including the surfacing of reports that Canadian veterans were being offered the fatal procedure by workers at VAC. 

VAC Minister Lawrence MacAulay claimed at the time that there was only one caseworker who was responsible for the MAiD scandal, however, this appears not to be the case. 

According to Rebel News’ reporting of the documents, “On page 21, we can see in the media lines that Veterans Affairs officials were planning to claim there were no other incidents of Veterans Affairs staff telling veterans to kill themselves. They had to remove that from their talking points because other veterans came forward.” 

It appears that staff claimed the other cases were only incidents in which veterans were inquiring about whether MAiD would prevent them from getting benefits after their death, as is the case in suicide.  

A quote from page 31 reads, “Veterans may approach VAC following their decision to pursue medical assistance in dying. In those cases, Veterans Affairs helps the veteran and the family understand their benefits as well as other sports services that may be relevant to the veteran’s unique circumstances.”

On page 679, real evidence of a “cover up” begins to show itself, reported Rebel News, with records showing VAC media staff saying that only verbal updates should be issued: “recommendation to keep the updates verbally to a limited distribution but will follow DMO 0SD’s preferred format and frequency.” 

It appears VAC staff had been concerned about negative media coverage, even going as far as to document who was writing about them internationally.  

Page 2,125 reads, “Hello all, it’s interesting to follow the thrice-daily media report emails to see how far the main story is traveling. Yesterday, it was reported by a couple of US news outlets, and today, it is in the UK Daily Mail.” 

“It is interesting to see how much coverage it’s getting,” the VAC staff added, also noting, “I had wondered if there would be anyone else to come out of the woodwork to say it had happened to them too but so far nothing (thankfully).” 

LifeSiteNews recently published a report noting how a Canadian combat veteran and artillery gunner revealed, while speaking on a podcast with Dr. Jordan Peterson, that the drugs used in MAiD essentially waterboard a person to death. 

Euthanasia first became legal in Canada in 2016 for those with terminal illness. Since then, the eligibly criteria has been loosened to allow the chronically ill, not just the terminally ill, to qualify for death.  

Desiring to expand the procedure to even more Canadians, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government sought to expand from just the chronically and terminally ill, to those suffering solely from mental illness. 

However, in February, after pushback from pro-life, medical, and mental health groups as well as most of Canada’s provinces, the federal government delayed the mental illness expansion until 2027. 

The number of Canadians killed by lethal injection since 2016 stands at close to 65,000, with an estimated 16,000 deaths in 2023 alone. Many fear that because the official statistics are manipulated the number may be even higher.