Juno News - August 23, 2022


Toews calls out Trudeau's euthanasia policies

Topics
expanded eligibility for mental illness
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Travis Tape
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Length

2 minutes

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168.71

Word count

404

Sentence count

15


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A Canadian Forces veteran seeking treatment for a traumatic brain injury was unexpectedly and casually offered assisted dying by a Veterans Affairs Canada employee. This is just the latest example of the federal government's assisted dying regime gone wrong, and there is certainly no shortage of them.

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00:00:00.000 UCP leadership candidate Travis Tape said assisted dying should not be offered to those
00:00:04.000 suffering from a mental illness. Of course medical assistance in dying commonly referred to as MAID
00:00:09.120 was legalized in 2016, but the Trudeau Liberals recently expanded the eligibility for it.
00:00:14.640 They expanded it to include the disabled, despite every Canadian national disability
00:00:18.960 organization saying they did not want that expansion because it makes the disabled feel
00:00:22.960 as though they are a burden to society and valueless. Yet the Trudeau Liberals took it
00:00:27.440 one step further and they expanded the eligibility to those suffering from a mental illness beginning
00:00:31.920 March 2023. So beginning in March 2023 you would be eligible for assisted dying if you have depression,
00:00:39.120 anxiety. I don't even want to say this out loud because it's so disgusting that this would be
00:00:43.280 considered a treatment option for those people. We should be telling them that there is hope available
00:00:48.400 and that there is a way to recover from these illnesses and to go on to live a happy and normal
00:00:52.240 life. Legalizing and expanding doctor assisted suicide creates a slippery slope as evidenced
00:00:57.600 by the shifting conversation to protect those with mental illness, Travis Tape told me this week.
00:01:03.440 Of course we're having this conversation now because Global News reported earlier this week
00:01:07.920 that a Canadian Forces veteran seeking treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and a traumatic brain
00:01:13.200 injury was unexpected and casually offered assisted dying by Veterans Affairs Canada employee.
00:01:20.320 This is just the latest example of the federal government's assisted dying regime gone wrong
00:01:24.880 and there is certainly no shortage of examples here. The Associated Press recently reported on a
00:01:30.560 recorded audio from a London Ontario hospital that appeared to show the director of ethics raising the
00:01:36.640 subject of euthanasia with a disabled patient and saying that patient was costing the system quote
00:01:42.400 north of $1,500 a day. Travis Tape said this is immoral and it should be illegal to even mention the cost of
00:01:49.440 services in a conversation about assisted dying. I'm curious to hear what the rest of the UCP
00:01:55.040 leadership candidates have to say about this. Of course assisted dying falls under the criminal code
00:01:59.280 and as such is federal jurisdiction but health care is administered by the province. So what solutions,
00:02:04.800 if any, do the other UCP leadership candidates have to offer to the federal government's massively radical
00:02:11.040 assisted dying regime.