#Canada has seen the most extreme expansion of #euthanasia laws with their #MedicalAssistanceInDying (MAiD), passed over the objections of the disability community: https://www.mcgilldaily.com/2021/02/bill-c-7-devalues-the-lives-of-disabled-canadians/

Prior to the expansion of #MAiD, Disability Inclusion Minister #CarlaQualtrough told the justice committee that it’s easier to access MAiD than to get a wheelchair in some parts of the country: https://www.ipolitics.ca/news/senators-worried-its-easier-to-access-maid-than-other-health-services

#RogerFoley, a disabled man (without a terminal illness) secretly recorded doctors repeatedly attempting to coerce him to end his life in 2017, threatening to charge him $1800 a day if he remained in the hospital: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/chronically-ill-man-releases-audio-of-hospital-staff-offering-assisted-death-1.4038841?cache=kyifhaaa

But that pales compared to what has happened since Canada expanded MAiD. In February 2022, after 2 years of being refused accessible housing, a woman w/ multiple chemical sensitivities requested MAiD: the government approved her application the same day: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/woman-with-chemical-sensitivities-chose-medically-assisted-death-after-failed-bid-to-get-better-housing-1.5860579

MAiD’s expanded criteria, allowing euthanasia for those whose death is “not reasonably foreseeable,” had not even come into effect until 17 March 2022.

Madeline, a 54-year-old woman $40,000 in medical debt, plans to get euthanasia when her money runs out this year: the government doesn’t provide enough resources for disabled people to live, but they will kill them free of charge: https://www.chatelaine.com/health/maid-assisted-death-poverty/

#MedicalAbleism #Eugenics #Genocide #Ontario #BritishColumbia