Assisted Suicide Canada's Government Assisted Suicide Program leads World in Harvesting Organs

It'sbeen almost seven years since Canada passed the assisted suicide law, and has become the leader of transplanted organs that are harvested from Canadians that were assisted in suicide.

After the law Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) was passed in 2016, Canadian doctors have since then done almost half of the world's organ transplants.

According to CTV News, the Canadian Institute for Health Information reported that this new source of transplant organs has accounted for six percent of all transplants from the deceased donors in Canada in 2021. The director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba, Arthur Schafer said, "I was rather proud that Canada has done so well in terms of organ donations by MAID patients." There are 4,000 Canadians who are currently waiting for organ transplants.

MAID is a department of the govt. of Canada. Currently, a person's decision to end their life is strictly voluntary. Originally, the law was for Canadian citizens who were suffering from some kind of terminal disease. But according to the Canadian Govt. website, "You do not need to have a fatal or terminal condition to be eligible for medical assistance in dying."

After March 17, 2023, The Canadian govt. will allow people "with a mental illness as their sole underlying medical condition" to qualify for MAID, "if they meet all of the eligibility requirements."

According to Health Canada records, 44.2% of MAID provisions took place at the home.

The Third Annual Report on MAID in Canada 2021 shows that there are now eight documented cases in the world where providers offered assisted deaths in the patients' home. Canada had five take place at the home. The MAID patient is given the medication in their home; they are then taken away by ambulance to the nearest hospital to have their organs removed.

Recently, a paraplegic former Canadian military member had complained to the veteran's department, as her request for a chair lift for many years still had not arrived at her home. Instead of receiving assistance to help her get up and down the stairs pain free, the govt. instead offered to help her with assisted suicide.

Retired Army Corporal Christine Gauthier, who also competed in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics for Canada, said in Parliament in December that the Veterans Affairs Canada caseworker offered her the opportunity for medically assisted suicide. Christine said, "I have a letter saying that if you're so desperate, Madam, we can offer you MAID, medical assistance in dying." Christine first injured her back in 1989 during a training accident. She said, "I sent a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau stating that Veterans Affairs offered me MAID and would supply equipment."

Prime Minister Trudeau said that Christine Gauthier's ordeal is "absolutely unacceptable." He also said, "We are following up with investigations, and we are changing protocols to ensure what should seem obvious to all of us: that it is not the place of Veterans Affairs Canada, who are supposed to be there to support those people who stepped up to serve their country, to offer them medical assistance in dying."

The Veterans Minister Lawrence MacAulay also said in testimony to the same committee that four or five other cases of Canadian military veterans have been given the MAID option. They have now been suspended and the veteran service agent has been referred to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.