Dear Mellany,In 2024,
16,499 Canadians died by lethal injection, administered by a doctor or nurse practitioner and paid for by the government.Ottawa calls it Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID).
It sounds friendlier that way.
It is euthanasia, and it is now one in every twenty deaths in this country. More than in any other nation on earth.
My new book is about the people behind that number. It’s called MAID: The Dark Side of Canadian Compassion, and as of today it’s on Amazon in paperback, hardcover and Kindle.
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You’ve met some of these people in my reporting. Christine Gauthier, the army veteran and Paralympian, asked Veterans Affairs Canada for a lift so she could get into her own house.
A case manager offered her MAID instead.
A Calgary father knew the date his autistic daughter was scheduled to die, and could not find one person in the system who had to take his call.
Some you haven’t met.
A psychiatric nurse, released from a psychiatric unit hours after a suicide attempt, was euthanized that same day.
Here is how we got here. In 2016, Parliament legalized assisted death only for people whose natural death was already “reasonably foreseeable.”
In 2021, Justin Trudeau’s Bill C-7 deleted that requirement.
You no longer have to be dying, just suffering, with two assessors who sign off. Belgium and the Netherlands took more than 20 years to reach the share of deaths Canada reached in eight.
I’ll be fair to the MPs who voted in 2016.
Most of them meant “the dying.” The committee transcripts in this book show what they were told before the 2021 vote.
They were warned, and they voted anyway.The next expansion is already on the calendar. On March 17, 2027, unless Mark Carney’s Liberals delay it a third time, MAID opens to Canadians whose only condition is a mental illness.
Health Canada’s report tells you how many died.
It does not tell you how many asked for help first and were offered death instead.
That is what this book is for.Two years ago Kian Simone and I made the documentary of the same name and took it to screenings across the country.
The film could show you the families.
It could not show you the files.
So I spent four years on them: 13 recorded interviews, access-to-information releases, Order Paper answers MPs had to fight for, coroners’ reports, and the committee transcripts where the warnings were made and ignored.
The program they sold us was for the dying.
But they keep lowering the bar.
It is now for the disabled.
It is for the poor and the lonely.
It is for a veteran who asked for a lift.
And on March 17, it will be for the depressed, too.I follow the money, I name the people who built the fastest-growing euthanasia program in the world, and I lay out what it will take to stop it.
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Get a copy for yourself, and one for the friend who still thinks MAID is only for the dying. Rebel News published this book, so every copy keeps the reporting going.
Yours truly,Sheila Gunn Reid
Senior Editor, Rebel NewsP.S. I want this book on the desk of every MP who voted for this.
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