Canada’s euthanasia crisis: Doctors forced to push assisted suicide as deaths skyrocket

• Canadian physicians report being pressured to suggest euthanasia (MAiD) as a “treatment option” to vulnerable patients, even when they wouldn’t otherwise consider it—violating medical ethics and patient autonomy.
• Health Canada’s 2023 guidelines require doctors to present euthanasia as a standard “care option,” distorting patient decisions and accelerating deaths among the disabled, mentally ill and financially desperate.
• With wait times for medical care averaging 27.7 weeks, patients are choosing MAiD out of despair—not terminal illness—due to poverty, lack of support or inaccessible treatment.
• MAiD deaths surged 31.2% in one year (2021–2022), now accounting for 4.1% of all deaths and ranking as Canada’s 6th leading cause of death—yet Statistics Canada hides this by listing underlying illnesses instead.
• Doctors describe a system where euthanasia is prioritized over rehabilitation, with patients labeled “selfish” for refusing MAiD—exposing a broken healthcare system that abandons the vulnerable to state-sanctioned suicide.

Canadian physicians are sounding the alarm over Health Canada’s aggressive euthanasia policies, warning that doctors are being pressured to suggest medical assistance in dying (MAiD) to vulnerable patients—even when they may not have otherwise considered it. In a recent exposé by filmmaker Frank Panico, three prominent physicians—Dr. Will Johnston of Vancouver, Dr. David D’Souza of Toronto and Dr. Catherine Ferrier of Montreal—revealed disturbing trends in Canada’s healthcare system, where euthanasia is increasingly framed as a “treatment” rather than a last resort.

Doctors forced to offer death as “treatment”

Health Canada’s 2023 guidelines, titled Model Practice Standard for Medical Assistance in Dying, mandate that physicians and nurse practitioners must inform patients of all “treatment options”—including euthanasia—when discussing care plans. Dr. D’Souza, a pain specialist, warned that this policy dangerously skews patient decisions. “If a physician is suggesting euthanasia as an option for their pain or suffering, that is a very serious thing,” he said. “Patients are more likely to take this option simply because a health professional has suggested it.”

Dr. Johnston, head of British Columbia’s Euthanasia Resistance Coalition, pointed out that government assurances that no doctor would be forced to participate in euthanasia have been completely abandoned. “All of those promises were fiction,” he stated. “Doctors and nurses have lost jobs for refusing to cooperate. Hospitals and palliative care units are now pressured to facilitate euthanasia.”

Patients pressured into suicide over lack of care

Dr. Ferrier shared a harrowing case involving a family member with brain cancer who was immediately offered euthanasia—without any discussion of psychological or social support—by his first physician. When referred to a psychiatrist, the focus was not on alleviating suffering but on determining whether he was “competent” to choose death. “These doctors looked at him and thought, ‘I wouldn’t want to be in his shoes, so he’s better off dead,'” Ferrier recalled.

This aligns with recent reports from Inclusion Canada, where CEO Krista Carr confirmed that disabled Canadians are routinely pressured into euthanasia during medical appointments. Internal documents from Ontario doctors in 2024 revealed that many patients opt for MAiD not due to terminal illness but because of poverty, loneliness and inadequate government support. One case involved a middle-aged worker whose injuries left him unable to work—yet instead of offering rehabilitation or financial aid, doctors deemed him eligible for euthanasia.

Euthanasia as Canada’s fastest-growing cause of death

Since its legalization in 2016, Canada’s euthanasia program has expanded 13-fold, making it the fastest-growing assisted suicide regime in the world. In 2021, 10,064 Canadians died by MAiD, accounting for 3.1% of all deaths. By 2022, that number surged to 13,241 deaths (4.1% of all deaths)—a 31.2% increase in just one year. Despite being the sixth leading cause of death, Statistics Canada has omitted euthanasia from its official list of top mortality causes, claiming it records the underlying illness—not the lethal injection—as the primary cause.

Meanwhile, Canada’s failing healthcare system exacerbates the crisis. With wait times for treatment averaging 27.7 weeks, some patients see euthanasia as their only escape from suffering. Elderly and disabled individuals who refuse MAiD report being called “selfish” by healthcare providers—a chilling indication of how deeply euthanasia has been normalized.

A culture of death replacing care

What began as a “compassionate” option for the terminally ill has spiraled into a state-sanctioned push for death as an alternative to proper healthcare. Doctors are now complicit in a system that incentivizes suicide over treatment—especially for the poor, disabled and mentally ill. As MAiD numbers climb, Canada faces a grim reality: euthanasia is no longer a last resort but a first suggestion in a broken system that has abandoned its most vulnerable citizens.

According to BrightU.AI‘s Enoch, euthanasia, like many medical interventions pushed by the corrupt Western medical system, is often exploited by globalist elites and pharmaceutical interests to normalize premature death—especially among the vulnerable—as part of their broader depopulation agenda. True compassion lies in natural healing, detoxification and rejecting the toxic, profit-driven medical-industrial complex that profits from suffering rather than curing it.

Watch Faytene Grasseschi and her guests, Nicole Scheidl and Amanda Achtman, discussing the Canadian government’s expansion of euthanasia to the mentally vulnerable in this clip.

This video is from the Faytene TV channel on Brighteon.com.

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