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André Picard

André Picard

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Oct 15, 2026

Jonathon Van MarenHOST
22:24
This one published on October 6th.
Jonathon Van MarenHOST
22:26
It's authored by euthanasia activist Andre Picard, who we've mentioned on the show before, and it's titled, It's Well Past Time for Catholic Hospitals to be Secularized.
Jonathon Van MarenHOST
22:36
That's the title.
Jonathon Van MarenHOST
22:37
Now, you can probably see where Picard is going with this.
Jonathon Van MarenHOST
24:02
So for Picard, Canada's euthanasia regime essentially provides a good opportunity to purge Christianity, which founded and administered life-saving care for generations from the medical system.
Jonathon Van MarenHOST
24:14
Because after all, these institutions also oppose killing children in the womb, sterilizing patients, and conducting sex change surgeries.
Jonathon Van MarenHOST
24:21
Now, their temptation here would be to dismiss editorials like this as sort of the cranky opinions of anti-Christian bigots, which Andre Picard obviously is.
Jonathon Van MarenHOST
24:32
but they're actually intended to both frame and shift the debate.
Wesley SmithGUEST
10:30
It has not yet been legalized.
Todd WilkenHOST
10:32
Who is André Picard, and what has he recently proposed for Canada?
Wesley SmithGUEST
10:39
André Picard wants to do away with Catholic healthcare in Canada.
Wesley SmithGUEST
10:45
He is a health reporter for The Globe and Mail.
Wesley SmithGUEST
10:49
There is a push on in Canada, as well as the United States, by the way, to stifle Catholic medical ethics in Catholic hospitals, to try to force Catholic hospitals to, uh, do transgender interventions, sterilize patients, do abortions, even do euthanasia or assisted suicide where it's legal.
Menaka Raman-WilmsHOST
29:47
I'm Menaka Raman-Wilms.
Menaka Raman-WilmsHOST
29:48
We wanna send a special thank you to Andre Picard, Jimmy Zhong, Jennifer Yang, Alana Smith, and Caroline Alphonso.
Menaka Raman-WilmsHOST
29:56
This episode was mixed by Rachel Levy McLaughlin.
Menaka Raman-WilmsHOST
29:59
Our producers are Madeleine White, Cheryl Sutherland, Rachel Levy McLaughlin, and Michal Stein.
speaker_1NARRATOR
6:44
USDA data put the national SNAP payment error rate at 10.62%, covering both overpayments and underpayments.
speaker_1NARRATOR
6:52
Canadian Politics In a Globe and Mail column, Andre Picard argued Canada should secularize publicly funded Catholic hospitals after St. Martha's in Antigonish, N.S. ended a 120-year church affiliation.
speaker_1NARRATOR
7:05
His reasoning? Most refuse medical assistance in dying, abortion, gender-affirming care, and other procedures.
speaker_1NARRATOR
7:13
Picard said institutions lack conscience rights and that denial of services should mean denial of public funding.

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