Assisted suicide

THIS IS THE FAILURE OF HEALTH CARE OR HEALTH INSURANCE, I SHOULD SAY.

Well, you mentioned the Canadian system, and there is an even darker side behind that, which is the policy having to do with the acronym is MADE, Medical Assistance in Dying.

And it appears that the Canadian government has promoted a system in which individuals who are no longer contributing in a significant financial way to the overall economics of Canadian economy are being routed in many ways into this MAID program that, from an objective outside point of view, looks like it's designed to reduce costs for the Canadian government by reducing those individuals that are more dependent on the, quote, healthcare system, the socialized system that exists.

So if we do this, if we follow this track, that the Democrats have been promoting of increasing socialism in healthcare, what we end up with is a situation in which we're entirely at risk for the whims of the state, large insurance companies, and this consolidated industry in which what's happened is you've had private equity come in, scoop up physician practices, scoop up hospitals, The real estate trusts now control most of the hospitals.

Well, Canada is truly a nation that is cold as ice when it comes to life and God, for that matter.

The Canadian government is now considering a bill that would expand its Medical Assistance in Dying program, otherwise known as MAID.

That program allows for people to perform government-assisted suicide.

The expansion plan to the program would allow for people who have lost mental capacity and ability to give informed consent to be suicided by the MAID program.

Hey now! How you doing, friends? Yesterday's episode came out a little bit later than I wanted it to, so I'm making an effort to get this one out a little bit earlier, and wow, is this ever going to be a great episode.

I have got so many interesting things that I'm going to get to, including a conversation about MAID, Medical Assistance in Dying, some new proposals came down yesterday from the federal government, and we got to talk about that.

You're also going to, on this episode, hear from the Prime Minister, Pierre Pauliev, Doug Ford, and the list goes on.

Oh, even the CEO of Cleveland Cliffs there, the guy who runs Stelco.

Now I want to go back to Ottawa.

Yesterday, a news conference was held with the justice minister, Sean Frazier.

He's talking about proposed changes to MAID, Medical Assistance in Dying.

And I would think every Canadian probably understands that MAID is available in Canada.

Then what does that mean for you?

So at the time, MAID, which is Medical Aid in Dying, was not accessible in California.

It was not legal yet.

And one of the conversations that my mother and I had before her diagnosis and then shortly after her diagnosis was if she could not speak, she did not want to be alive anymore.

In the last session, in the English devolution and community empowerment bill, I tabled an amendment which sought to ensure that rural communities were part of the bill and it went ping pong ping pong but we got there in the end and I just As we were saying earlier, people don't realise how much influence one can have in the Lords.

Influence for the good, but there again, I'm also passionate about the Assisted Dying Bill and I was extraordinarily frustrated that the Will of the Commons was thwarted because of the number of amendments that were tabled in this place and the length of time that it took to debate them so that we never even voted on the bill.

Mm-hmm.

You think we'll remember many sitting Fridays?

Yes.

It is called, uh, MAID, Medical Aid in Dying, MAID.

That is an acronym.

That's when a sound or a word comes from initials.