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