Canada’s MAiD Program has quickly morphed to kill an estimated 100,000 Canadians over the last decade.1 Here’s how
the Courts and Parliament have made the country the medical homicide capitol of the world.
2015: the Canada Supreme Court ruled in Carter v. Canada that the parts of the Criminal Code pertaining to “medical
assistance in dying” were invalid because they conflicted with the Charter of Rights. The Court gave the government until June, 2016, to legislate euthanasia and assisted suicide.
2016: Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) Law was passed.
2019: the Supreme Court of Quebec’s Truchon decision found that the following provisions were unconstitutional:
• The “reasonable foreseeability of natural death” criteria in the Criminal Code.
• The “end-of-life” criterion from Quebec’s Act Respecting End-of-Life Care.2
2021: Bill C-7 took effect and made the following changes:3
• Removed the requirement for the person’s death to be reasonably foreseeable.
• Allowed those with a set MAiD date to waive their final consent if they are at risk of losing capacity before that date.
• Delayed eligibility for MAiD for those whose sole underlying condition is mental illness for two years and required the
Ministers of Justice and Health to submit a review and recommendations for MAiD in those cases.
2023: Bill C-39 postponed eligibility for mental health, alone, until 2024.
2024: Bill C-62 postponed eligibility for mental health, alone, until 2027.4
2026: Justice Minister Sean Fraser and Health Minister Marjorie Michel stated on October 7, 2026 that the federal government will introduce legislation that
that they claim would prevent the implementation of euthanasia for mental illness as a sole criteria.
However, this new legislation will also permit euthanasia by “advanced request.”
• Euthanasia by “advance request” means that a person, while competent, legally declares their “wish” to be killed in the future. Then, if the person becomes mentally incompetent, the person could still be killed, even though he or she is not capable of consenting in the present.
• Once a person who signed an advanced request for euthanasia becomes incompetent, they are not legally able to change their mind. So even if they are happy, healthy, and no longer want to be killed, someone else will have the right to decide whether they live or die.5
Therefore, euthanasia by “advance request” is still just euthanasia without consent for people with a mental illness!
The Canadian Slope
The Coffee Euthanasia
A person who is approved to die by euthanasia based on an advanced request, who becomes incompetent, will lose their right to change their mind.
This is what happened in the Netherlands with the “coffee euthanasia” death where an incompetent woman, who had previously requested euthanasia, resisted during the euthanasia. The doctor responded by putting a sedative in the woman’s coffee, but the woman continued to resist, so the doctor had her family hold her down as the doctor completed the lethal poison injection.6
Mental Illness Alone
The Globe and Mail published an opinion article on June 13 by Dr Konia Trouton titled: Why are the rules different for MAiD depending on what you have? Trouton is not only a euthanasia doctor, but she is also a co-founder and past president of CAMAP (Canadian Association of MAiD Assessors and Practitioners), and she helped develop the curriculum for training doctors to poison (kill) their patients. Trouton’s article justifies euthanasia for people who are not terminally ill but living with mental health conditions.
Trouton argues that John Scully, who is living with chronic mental illness, should have equal access to medical homicide. According to Trouton, who is a euthanasia lobby leader, John Scully qualifies to be killed because he can no longer self-manage his life, and he needs a personal support worker to help him live his life. A definition, such as this, represents a very wide group of people. These people deserve to receive societal support (caring) not medical homicide.
Trouton’s medical homicide approval criteria opens the door to medical homicide to the many, not the few.7
Death of GG: “Care” Home v. Power of Attorney
“GG” Stegemann was euthanized on Friday, July 10, 2026.
Five months before her death, she was diagnosed with stage 4 stomach cancer. Two months before her death, the care home brought up MAiD, but GG refused based on her Christian faith and firmly held beliefs.
Her granddaughter Brigitte, her Power of Attorney, went on vacation for 10 days, and during that time, the care home convinced GG to request MAiD, scheduled a physician evaluation, filled out and witnessed the paperwork, and kept it all a secret from Brigitte until she got back. At the evaluation, the physician deemed GG mentally competent to consent to euthanasia, even though she was deaf in one ear and couldn’t understand the questions. The family had to correct nearly every answer she gave during the evaluation and she was visibly distressed throughout.
GG and Brigitte had been assured that if GG stayed silent and didn’t give her final consent, the euthanasia would not proceed. But on the day of her death, despite GG’s silence, the procedure was carried out anyways.
“Excluding a long-time advocate from the room during the final assessment, failing to halt the process when the patient expressed agonizing second thoughts and confusion days prior, and proceeding on the final morning without an audible, clear verbal consent from the patient are actions that defy the law. (…) The events of GG's final morning—being forced to assist with the medical preparation, witnessing a messy and bloody IV complication, and watching the procedure continue while GG sat silently in a prayer position—have left a lasting trauma on our family.”8
We truly thank Alex Schadenberg Executive Director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition for his help on this publication and his work on this subject. We strongly encourage you to follow Alex and the Coalition.
Please also watch Prescription Poison: Averting Assisted Suicide USA, available at prescriptionpoison.com which was produced by Alex. You can watch it online or buy a DVD that will be mailed to you.
Canada: www.epcc.ca
U.S.A.: www.epc-usa.org