According to researcher Patricia Maloney, euthanasia and assisted suicide groups in Canada make millions of dollars from taxpayers courtesy of the Canadian government. Maloney no cover two instances involving the government funding of assisted suicide groups.
The first organization to be recruited was The Canadian Association of MAiD Assessors and Providers (CAMAP). $3.2 million from the government in 2021, compared to just over $41,500 in 2018. CAMAP is a national charity dedicated solely to euthanasia and assisted suicide.
The second organization is Dying With Dignity Canada, which focuses solely on euthanasia and assisted suicide. This received $204,655 from the Canadian government in 2021, as well as grants from Canada Summer Jobs program in 2020 and 2021.
A 2020 report submitted to the Canadian Parliament celebrated the health care cost savings that resulted from the country’s legalization of assisted suicide. The report concluded that assisted suicide represented “a net cost reduction of $86.9 million” for the government, adding, “expanding access in MAID will result in a net reduction in health care costs for provincial governments.” (emphasized)
Although medical assistance in dying was only recently legalized in Canada, the Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program has become one of the most intensive in the world. It is set to include people with mental illness in 2024, and the country is currently the world leader in euthanizing inmates. The government is also looking to allow children to be euthanized, even without parental consent.
Meanwhile, more than one in four Canadians support euthanasia just because of homelessness, while Canadian ethicists argue that poverty alone should be an acceptable reason for a person to be eligible for physician-assisted death. Individuals with disabilities increasingly request MAiD because they cannot afford to live and the government rejects their requests for better care and support.
“We need to understand that many people with disabilities live in poverty and they have difficulty receiving the necessary medical treatment but legally they have no difficulty in being approved for death by euthanasia,” Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition said previously in Catholic News Agency. “It has apparently led to an epidemic of death, of despair, in Canada. Deaths based on cultural abandonment but sold to the population under the false pretense of freedom.”
