Euthanasia is legal in Canada.
Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), assisted suicide, was made legal in Canada as of 2016. Doctors are required to participate in euthanasia regardless of their conscious rights.
Pain is not the top reason why people ask to be euthanized.
Depression, loneliness and feeling like a burden are the top reasons people ask to be euthanized.
Euthanasia is being abused by medical professionals.
Studies of other countries with legalized euthanasia show that medical professionals do not properly report cases of euthanasia, especially when mentally ill persons are involved.
What is Euthanasia?
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide are different means to the same end.
History of Euthanasia in Canada
1972
Canadian Parliament …
abolishes suicide and attempted suicide as a criminal offense.
1980
Canadian Charter …
of Rights and Freedoms is signed by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
1993
Tracy Latimer …
who had cerebral palsy is killed by her father Robert Latimer. He is arrested and charged with murder in 1994.
1998
Appeals Court …
overturns the Latimer sentence, replacing it with Life in prison. Requiring a minimum of 10 years to be served without parole. Latimer appeals to the Supreme Court of Canada.
2001
Supreme Court …
of Canada upholds the Latimer conviction.
2010
Canada’s parliament …
rejected Bill C-384, a bill to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide by a vote of 228 to 59.
2015
Carter v Canada case …
overturned legal ban on doctor-assisted suicide. The federal government was given 12 months to enact the necessary legislation to make doctor – assisted suicide legal.
2016
Current legislation …
on medical assistance in dying is now part of the Criminal Code, stating that a person is not guilty of a criminal offence if they provide or assist in assisted suicide, according to the conditions and safeguards of the law.
