Canadian group that led
push to legalize euthanasia warns of abuse of system
CNA Staff, Dec 27, 2024 / 12:10 pm
The activist group that led the push to legalize
medical aid in dying (MAID) in Canada is now warning that additional government
safeguards are needed to combat reports of abuse of the program.
Liz Hughes, executive director of the
British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA), told the National Post that
the organization has become “aware of concerning reports of people being offered
MAID in circumstances that may not legally qualify as well as people accessing
MAID as a result of intolerable social circumstances.”
The BCCLA was a key figure in Canada’s legalization
of euthanasia, having filed the suit Carter v. Canada that led to the Supreme
Court of Canada’s striking down the government ban on the procedure.
In the roughly nine years since
euthanasia became legal in Canada in 2016, the practice has become increasingly
popular. The latest government figures,
released this month, showed another double-digit year-over-year increase in the
procedure, with 15,343 Canadian citizens euthanized by medical officials in
2023, accounting for 1 in 20 deaths there.
Yet a bombshell report in November revealed
that out of hundreds of violations of the country’s controversial euthanasia
law over the course of several years, none of them have been reported to law
enforcement, with whistleblowers warning of numerous “issues with compliance”
in reportage.
Hughes told the National Post that the country’s
federal and provincial governments “must put in place, actively review, and
enforce appropriate safeguards to ensure that people are making this decision
freely.”
The civil rights organization “will continue to
hold the government accountable” for its policing of the euthanasia program,
she said.
At its launch, the country’s euthanasia regime was
billed as a last-resort choice for terminally ill adults undergoing terrible
suffering. In the years since, however, activists have called for its expansion
to include much broader categories of applicants.
An activist group sued the federal government
earlier this month, calling for an immediate expansion of the
country’s euthanasia program to allow physician-assisted suicide for those
suffering from mental illness.
The federal government had earlier
been set to expand the program to those with mental illnesses; that measure
was delayed early this year and
is now projected to take effect in 2027.
The provincial government of Quebec
last month began allowing assisted suicide for individuals
who cannot consent at the time of the procedure, permitting
“advance requests” by those who have “been diagnosed with a serious and
incurable illness leading to incapacity” such as Alzheimer’s disease.
The federal government, meanwhile, is
actively soliciting citizen input for a proposal to legalize “advance requests” at
the national level.
No, Gene, your usual juvenile tactic, when beaten out of sight yet again - of posting a meaningless story in an attempt to push your humiliation down the page, as if anyone will read about it anyway - is not going to work this time.
ReplyDeleteAs Detters so rightly says, sooner or later you are going to have to face these facts:
When the senior management team at your old school get his memorandum on the subject, complete with your verbatim testimony to your sexual touching offences, they will not dare ignore it, particularly as Detterling will make it clear to them that if they do ignore it, then he will refer the matter onward to Ms Catherine Edgington, Head of Safeguarding in the Diocese of Westminster.
This is in view of the fact that it is almost certain that some of the women you groped will still be teaching, and will probably confirm that they were repeatedly the objects of your grubby attentions.
No school senior management team in its right senses would ignore such information - not least because it comes with your repeated confessions, one of which makes clear that you knew what you were doing was wrong - vide your tactic of seeking out secluded or secret locations for your grubby sexual assaults.
You can't worm and weasel your way out of this one, Gene.
You have, in Samuel Pepys's classic phrase "shit in your hat and then clapped it on your head"...and that shit will, on February 2nd next year, hit the fan and cover you neck deep in a midden you have filled yourself over many years of dealing out shit to other people behind a mask of anonymity.
I can hardly wait.
Mr Anonymous of Northwood.
"posting a meaningless story"
ReplyDeleteEuthanasia is not a meaningless story you Nazi sympathiser. Euthanasia was Nazi policy.
GENE
Oh, give over, you silly little man. The story is meaningless TO YOU - you don't give a stuff for anything or anyone but yourself - the only reason you have posted it is to push your humiliation off the front page of this blog in case anyone actually reads it.
DeleteAnd is there no limit to your ignorance?
The meaning of ευθανασία is literally "good death", as someone alleged versed in the Greek philosophers should know - or didn't you read that far in The Bluffers' Guide to Philosophy?
Shoah did not bring "good death" to anyone, you pig ignorant bastard, and your allegation that Detterling is a "Nazi sympathiser" is a pathetic attempt to insult him, born of your desperate need to lash out at a man who will, in 34 days' time drop you so hard and deep in the shit that you will spend the rest of the year dodging jet propelled turds.
As Detters so rightly says, sooner or later you are going to have to face these facts:
When the senior management team at your old school get his memorandum on the subject, complete with your verbatim testimony to your sexual touching offences, they will not dare ignore it, particularly as Detterling will make it clear to them that if they do ignore it, then he will refer the matter onward to Ms Catherine Edgington, Head of Safeguarding in the Diocese of Westminster.
This is in view of the fact that it is almost certain that some of the women you groped will still be teaching, and will probably confirm that they were repeatedly the objects of your grubby attentions.
No school senior management team in its right senses would ignore such information - not least because it comes with your repeated confessions, one of which makes clear that you knew what you were doing was wrong - vide your tactic of seeking out secluded or secret locations for your grubby sexual assaults.
You can't worm and weasel your way out of this one, Gene.
You have, in Samuel Pepys's classic phrase "shit in your hat and then clapped it on your head"...and that shit will, on February 2nd next year, hit the fan and cover you neck deep in a midden you have filled yourself over many years of dealing out shit to other people behind a mask of anonymity.
I can hardly wait.
Mr Anonymous of Northwood.
"The meaning of ευθανασία is literally "good death""
ReplyDeleteAnd the Nazi policy of euthanasia provided such good deaths!!!
Any way that you read it you and your ilk are planning to carry out the Nazi policy of euthanasia.
GENE
You ignorant, drunken oaf.
DeleteThe Nazi "euthanasia" program targeted, for systematic killing, patients with mental and physical disabilities living in institutional settings in Germany and German-annexed territories. Historians estimate that the program claimed the lives of 250,000 men, women, and children.
Your claim that Detterling would have supported such an inhuman policy is too daft to laugh at.
As Detters so rightly says, sooner or later you are going to have to face these facts:
When the senior management team at your old school get his memorandum on the subject, complete with your verbatim testimony to your sexual touching offences, they will not dare ignore it, particularly as Detterling will make it clear to them that if they do ignore it, then he will refer the matter onward to Ms Catherine Edgington, Head of Safeguarding in the Diocese of Westminster.
This is in view of the fact that it is almost certain that some of the women you groped will still be teaching, and will probably confirm that they were repeatedly the objects of your grubby attentions.
No school senior management team in its right senses would ignore such information - not least because it comes with your repeated confessions, one of which makes clear that you knew what you were doing was wrong - vide your tactic of seeking out secluded or secret locations for your grubby sexual assaults.
You can't worm and weasel your way out of this one, Gene.
You have, in Samuel Pepys's classic phrase "shit in your hat and then clapped it on your head"...and that shit will, on February 2nd next year, hit the fan and cover you neck deep in a midden you have filled yourself over many years of dealing out shit to other people behind a mask of anonymity.
I can hardly wait.
Mr Anonymous of Northwood.