Juno News - April 22, 2025


Are Canadians sleepwalking through our national decline？

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In this episode of the podcast, I speak with author, journalist, historian, author, and author of "Euthanasia in Canada: The Story of a Broken Nation: Canada's Journey from Euthanasia to Modernizing Mental Health in the 21st Century" about the country's euthanasia program and the lack of a national conversation on the issue.

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00:00:00.000 it seems in some ways that canadians are sort of like sleepwalking through like the fall of our
00:00:04.640 country and i mean the euthanasia program is a perfect example of that like i feel like i missed
00:00:09.680 it like somehow the laws were passed and we didn't really have a national conversation on it we never
00:00:15.040 really had a debate to understand fully what it meant and then by the time the laws were brought
00:00:19.360 in it was like it was too late it was it was already there and it was already established
00:00:23.520 and it wasn't until they really started getting to the excesses of it right like the idea that
00:00:27.920 you could euthanize a child or someone who is mentally ill that people it really started making 0.83
00:00:33.920 press and i remember i didn't wasn't inspiring the kind of one of the sources i quote in my book
00:00:39.200 and he's he sort of studied medical assistance and time programs in other countries and he said
00:00:44.000 things kept happening in canada that even if they happened in you know one of our sort of
00:00:49.040 worst peer countries in europe you assume we're very much like the dutch or belgium and he said
00:00:55.120 things happened in Canada where if they happened in the Netherlands, it would be a huge scandal
00:00:59.080 and we would have people fired and you would have transparency from the government. And like the
00:01:04.220 example of Canada where a veteran calls Veterans Affairs for help with PTSD and is offered maid 0.98
00:01:09.800 and takes maid. That would be a much more controversial thing in basically any European
00:01:16.200 country. And here it was a Senate hearing. I think the person responsible was fired. We still don't
00:01:22.140 know that person's name and it basically went away. I've seen this with crime as well. I mean,
00:01:26.220 we always, people always criticize the Americans for, you know, how many mass shootings are they
00:01:31.080 going to have and they don't change their gun laws. Canada can endure any number of horrifying
00:01:36.820 crimes that are very easily solvable. I mean, you know, the guy was out on bail and he was already
00:01:41.700 on parole from another thing. Like there was multiple interventions that could have stopped
00:01:45.100 this stabbing massacre from happening. And we just don't notice, you know, the names of the
00:01:51.780 victims of these horrifying crimes these would be galvanizing events say in the united states
00:01:57.160 say in the uk say in europe say in south america and they are just everyday occurrences we know
00:02:03.620 they're solvable we read to the part of the story where oh the guy was on bail that sounds about
00:02:08.280 right and we just move on so um i don't know how to diagnose that but yes it is canadians do not
00:02:15.000 like to engage with the fact that their country is is very broken
00:02:18.460 on the other side.