Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Canada's number one in the world for euthanasia

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00:01:22.920 All right, here's today's podcast.

00:01:29.000 Canada's number one in the world for euthanasia. We'll talk with a leading activist who's fighting

00:01:34.900 back. It's November 14th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:38.300 You're fighting for freedom! Shame on you, you censorious bug!

00:01:52.920 Rebel News has about 30-something staff. You know, during the height of the pandemic,

00:01:57.600 we had more than 60 people working with us. We were covering every nook and cranny of that story.

00:02:03.520 I think 30-something is a great fit because we have reporters across the country in Northern Alberta,

00:02:09.660 in Vancouver, in Montreal, in Toronto, obviously. We have Avi Yamini down in Melbourne, Australia.

00:02:15.000 And for every person on TV, we need two behind the scenes, whether it's a cameraman or an editor or

00:02:20.660 whatnot. But if I look back over the sweep of the last 10 years, and you know Rebel News will be 10

00:02:26.780 in just a few months. We've actually had more than 100 people work with us, and some have gone on to

00:02:33.840 great things on their own, and some have gone on to become disasters. But it's been a pleasure to

00:02:39.740 meet such interesting people. And one of our most successful and thoughtful alumna who worked with

00:02:46.420 us when we were just getting started, when we were in an abandoned daycare in the heart of Toronto,

00:02:53.240 is our guest today. Her name is Amanda Ackman, and she was our community manager at Rebel News in our

00:02:59.040 first few months. And she's been doing some fascinating and terrifying things. What a pleasure

00:03:04.220 to see her reunited at Rebel News. Great to see you again. Good to be back, Ezra.

00:03:08.400 You know, we have interesting people who seek to work at Rebel News, and most of them

00:03:12.540 find us. We don't find them. And I remember with gratitude your work at Rebel News, but you've

00:03:19.440 taken some journalism and some activism that you did at Rebel News, and now you're focusing it on

00:03:25.880 one terrifying issue, aren't you? What's your focus these days? That's right. I am completely focused

00:03:30.100 to preventing euthanasia and encouraging hope across Canada and really now around the world,

00:03:35.560 because Canada has become a complete cautionary tale for the rest of the world of the path not

00:03:41.060 to go down. We have had about 70,000 Canadians euthanized since it was legalized nationwide in

00:03:48.500 2016. And more Canadians have been killed by doctors and nurses in hospitals and homes than the total

00:03:55.020 number of Canadians who died of COVID. That's crazy. Why? I wouldn't think that Canadians are pro-death.

00:04:02.740 When I think of that, that sounds like the Netherlands and some weirdness they have there. 1.00

00:04:07.440 Why, all of a sudden, has Canada become the death capital of the world?

00:04:12.300 When Canada first legalized euthanasia, much like the UK is thinking about doing right now,

00:04:17.820 it was ostensibly for those whose death was deemed reasonably foreseeable, people with terminal illnesses,

00:04:24.600 people whose death was imminent. And of course, we've seen the expansion of euthanasia,

00:04:29.060 because if euthanasia is seen as a compassionate means to end suffering, then it cannot remain limited.

00:04:37.600 How can it? Why would it? And so euthanasia, once legalized, always gets expanded on the grounds

00:04:43.020 of equality. And so what this is really about is an existential crisis, not so much a medical crisis.

00:04:50.360 You know, I really like how you introduce things in your very first sentence. It's about

00:04:53.760 fighting euthanasia and giving hope, because that's really what it is. Where there's life,

00:05:00.920 there's hope, is a promise that things can get better. It's darkest before the dawn. The reason

00:05:06.580 these are cliches is because they're well-worn truths. They're proverbs that we've deduced over

00:05:11.760 the centuries, really, the millennia of civilization. And I think if we say, oh, if you're in some pain,

00:05:18.400 the answer is not to bear the pain, or to be purified by it, or to deal with it, or to overcome

00:05:24.500 it, or to fix it. It's just to give up, because we should all have pain-free lives. And by the way,

00:05:30.580 pain can be very subjective. It could be mental anguish. It could be depression. It's so gross

00:05:34.920 to see that depression is now a trigger for government-mandated, government-approved euthanasia,

00:05:42.760 because we used to believe in suicide prevention. Now the government is saying, oh, if you're depressed,

00:05:46.400 go ahead and kill yourself. That's right. We have suicide prevention for some and suicide 1.00

00:05:51.660 assistance for others, which signals a devaluation of so much life. And when it comes to choosing

00:05:57.720 this mission of preventing euthanasia and encouraging hope, or really finding the moral

00:06:02.980 urgency in our culture, I was largely inspired by other social reformers who saw a crisis in their

00:06:09.020 own time. And William Wilberforce was one of them. And he said that, God Almighty has put before me

00:06:16.120 two key objects, the prohibition of the slave trade and the reformation of manners. So a kind

00:06:20.680 of classical way of expressing both the evil that he sought to prevent and the good that he sought to

00:06:27.220 promote. And so I think it's so crucial that anyone trying to reform and bring about change within a

00:06:36.640 society for the common good looks toward the positive good that we try to advance.

00:06:41.340 You know, I want to ask you again, because I'm not sure if I got an answer. Why is Canada

00:06:46.180 death central? I read a stat that was a one in seven people. Correct me if my stats are wrong.

00:06:54.800 The percentage of people who are, or the seventh greatest cause of death is suicide.

00:07:00.860 It's tied with the fifth leading. So euthanasia is now the fifth leading cause of death in Canada.

00:07:06.400 That's crazy. And in parts of Canada, 5% of all deaths. In other parts of Canada, for example,

00:07:11.940 Vancouver Island, in the last quarter, it was 11.4% of deaths were euthanasia.

00:07:17.820 My God, but why? Why? Help me out with the why.

00:07:20.300 Yes. This, again, is an existential problem. The idea is that once you suffer, once you,

00:07:26.180 you no longer belong in the human community, you're a problem, you're a burden, you're expensive.

00:07:31.720 And so the government does a survey each year on the leading kinds of suffering that motivate people

00:07:38.800 to request euthanasia. And the number one reason that people request euthanasia is not pain,

00:07:43.880 or the fear of pain, or the fear of being a burden, or even financial reasons. The number one reason,

00:07:50.240 according to people's own admission in Canada, why they're asking for euthanasia is...

00:07:53.500 I'm going to guess. I'm going to guess. Loneliness?

00:07:56.520 No, that's on the list, but it's not the top. The top is a loss of ability to engage in meaningful

00:08:02.200 life activities. A loss of ability to engage in meaningful life activities. And so many people

00:08:07.520 are saying, if I can no longer play bridge, if I can no longer go south in the winter,

00:08:11.960 if I can no longer do this or that, then my life has no meaning. It's no longer worth living.

00:08:17.640 Because when we stake so much of our sense of self and identity and what we can do and how we look

00:08:24.300 and what we can perform and all of these things, then it is shattering to no longer be able to do

00:08:31.720 those same things anymore. You know, a lot of our modern view of medicine comes from the so-called

00:08:41.260 Nuremberg doctor's trial. And a lot of the perpetrators of the worst horrors of the Holocaust 0.79

00:08:48.620 were medical doctors, not soldiers, not SS officers. And the doctor's trial, part of the

00:08:57.560 verdict is codified into what's sometimes called the Nuremberg Code, which is basically rules for

00:09:04.500 how doctors deal with patients. A lot of that came back to the fore during the COVID times when people

00:09:10.260 were misled about their injections and compelled to take medical procedures they didn't want.

00:09:17.940 But I think the world looked with horror at what doctors had become and said, never again,

00:09:25.560 to use the phrase. And yet doctors now are doing things that Hitler believed in. 0.91

00:09:32.440 Eugenics, culling those who are not optimal. The whole concept of the ubermensch and the 0.99

00:09:40.280 untermensch and, you know, you're not quite good enough to be alive anymore. And those ideas spread

00:09:47.680 far and wide. Tommy Douglas, the NDP, the CCF NDP leader, he wrote his thesis on eugenics for those who

00:09:58.200 were stupid and abnormal. And, you know, a lot of eugenics had to do with racial minorities too. 0.99

00:10:04.380 I thought that we had resolved all these things, but clearly we're falling back into

00:10:12.240 a Nazi-like calculation about human value. Now, before we turn the cameras on, you told me 0.68

00:10:18.880 that you visited some actual Nazi euthanasia centers. What is that?

00:10:26.980 In Europe, euthanasia sites have become memorial museums. In Canada, they're popping up as

00:10:35.160 maid house in Toronto, sites where you can be euthanized. But I did travel to Germany and Austria,

00:10:43.820 and I visited three former Nazi euthanasia killing centers. And I did this partly to get to the bottom

00:10:51.500 about what's fundamentally wrong with euthanasia. What are and how are those particular victims

00:10:57.640 commemorated? So when I went to Hardtime Castle, which is in Austria, that was a euthanasia killing

00:11:04.060 site, one of the largest ones. I toured around and there was an exhibit on the value of life.

00:11:10.100 And throughout this museum, there is a whole tracing of the history of sterilization,

00:11:15.320 of eugenics, of all the underlying ideas that gave rise to euthanasia. And you're right to point out 0.90

00:11:20.700 that there is a whole underlying worldview that drives euthanasia and brings it to that point.

00:11:27.660 It was a very interesting memorial site. And after I finished looking around, there were some Austrian

00:11:32.500 high school students having lunch. And I went up to them to ask what they had gotten out of the day.

00:11:37.380 And I asked those high schoolers who had spent all morning at the former euthanasia killing center,

00:11:43.640 if they thought there was ever a time where euthanasia was appropriate. And one of the students

00:11:49.700 said, only when the person asks for it. And all the other students agreed. That was their conclusion,

00:11:56.400 that the only thing wrong with this Nazi euthanasia killing facility was that they hadn't 0.77

00:12:01.760 signed consent waivers. And I think that reveals what is fundamentally at issue. Many people think

00:12:08.780 if you consent to it, it's fine. But in fact, some people think that that makes it less bad if you've

00:12:17.900 consented to it. But in fact, I think it makes it worse, because then you have someone conceding

00:12:24.800 to the dehumanization and participating in their own dehumanization.

00:12:29.940 There's obviously the technical issue of, are you pressured into it? What exactly does consent

00:12:35.920 mean? We have a concept in law called capacity. There's a phrase, taking candy from a baby, 0.91

00:12:42.900 you're not allowed to pull a fast one on someone who is under some sort of duress. If you have a gun

00:12:49.220 to someone's head to sign a contract, it's not binding. A child cannot engage in certain contracts

00:12:54.800 that are binding, because you protect certain people who are in a state of relative

00:12:59.380 weakness compared to, and what's so astonishing, we were talking about this earlier, is the number

00:13:05.540 of euthanasias in Canada, the killings in Canada, that are not initiated by the victim. Someone else

00:13:15.600 said, I've got an idea to solve this problem.

00:13:18.600 And to be offered euthanasia already kills the person. And anytime a doctor or nurse raises

00:13:24.660 euthanasia, it already deflates and defeats a person's sense of worth. And here's the other

00:13:30.880 thing about consent. We all know that it's possible for others to dehumanize us. I know that someone

00:13:37.260 else can harm me, can do any kind of wrong to me. Am I willing to have the humility that I can also do

00:13:45.320 that to myself? Because that's the issue with consent. Can we consent to our own degradation?

00:13:51.620 And I think that that signals a moral crisis and a call for intervention, not to concede and

00:13:58.020 capitulate to someone's suicidal ideation.

00:14:00.420 I think there's a bunch of things going on at once here. I think, without a doubt,

00:14:04.500 money is part of it. Because the government would say, oh, the last few years of life

00:14:09.920 are where the majority of healthcare costs are. Let's just nip this in the bud and get rid of this

00:14:16.640 cost center. That's why the Veterans Affairs Department in Canada, astonishingly, shockingly,

00:14:23.900 grotesquely recommends euthanasia to soldiers with PTSD. It's completely financial in that case,

00:14:31.120 because the government is the decider. But there's other things too.

00:14:34.500 I think it's people who, you know, doctors have often been accused of having a God complex,

00:14:41.380 sometimes because they can save a life. I can only imagine what that does to one's ego.

00:14:45.980 But there's also, God can smite someone also. And there's too many people with a sickening thrill

00:14:52.480 that they have the power of life and death, not to save a life, but to take it. And I don't know,

00:14:58.380 there's a, and I think there's a general void of a belief in life. The Jews wear a, there's typically 1.00

00:15:05.180 two common pieces of jewelry that a Jew might wear. One is the Star of David. The other is the word 0.98

00:15:12.120 chai, which is Hebrew for life. When Jews cheers, they say, lechaim, to life. The Pope, you know, 0.94

00:15:19.560 John Paul II, where there's life, there's hope. There's this culture of life, and that you've been

00:15:24.980 given life by God, and you have to protect it, and you should be grateful for it. If you take that

00:15:30.280 out of there, if you take the religious or faith-based belief in life away, and it's just the

00:15:36.500 neutral emptiness of outer space, well, then why not? Oh, I'm not optimal anymore.

00:15:41.860 What I have isn't special. I'm ready to push the exit button. I think there's a lot of things going

00:15:46.860 on at once. There are so many things there, and that's partly why it's so convoluted. I'm glad

00:15:50.980 you mentioned the financial aspect, because again, at Hardtime Castle in Austria, one of the-

00:15:55.600 How do you say that? Hardtime? Hardtime. Okay. How do you spell that? H-A-R-T-E-I-M. 1.00

00:16:01.660 Okay. I'll check it out. Yeah. Hardtime Castle. I'll just back up for a sec on that.

00:16:07.140 When I was traveling around, or when I was walking through the exhibit in Hardtime Castle,

00:16:14.900 there was actually a board, a financial calculation, and it was all in German, so I had to ask the guy

00:16:21.680 to explain it to me, and he said, oh, this was the calculation of how much money the German state

00:16:26.500 would save if this number of people with disabilities were prevented from living for 10 years longer.

00:16:32.720 That was the calculation, and it was so chilling, and it immediately recalled to my mind the cost

00:16:39.220 savings estimate documents, which are available online for Bill C-7, where it was being calculated

00:16:46.200 the savings through so-called medical assistance in dying, put on the internet for all to see,

00:16:53.660 produced by the parliamentary budget officer, and we know that those are vastly underestimated

00:16:58.720 calculations of the savings, and we haven't seen too many of those documents because they've been

00:17:03.240 pointed out for how incredibly sinister they are, and yet we know that the calculations are playing

00:17:08.560 a role not only on the national level, but also within families, and so when adult children support

00:17:14.080 their parents' euthanasia death, what's going on there? And then also, I've heard from older people

00:17:21.200 who say, well, I think my children would like my money, and so I should get to decide what to do with it,

00:17:25.700 rather than wasting away and having their inheritance dwindle and not being able to send

00:17:30.680 my grandchildren to university. So there are real, if that's not coercion, the financial pressure is

00:17:37.500 inherent, then I don't know what we're kidding ourselves on here.

00:17:42.080 You know, in the recent U.S. election, there was some ads by sort of white dudes for Kamala or whatever,

00:17:47.820 and it was these middle-aged guys, and they were saying how important the abortion issue was for

00:17:55.340 them, and there's this one middle-aged guy who said, I stand up for my daughter's right to choose,

00:18:01.740 and I'm just thinking, brother, you just said the most important issue to you is for your child to be

00:18:07.900 able to abort your grandchildren. This surely cannot be the most important issue in the entire world

00:18:16.540 motivating you. In fact, it's shocking that you would be on that side at all. But I think it's

00:18:23.160 this culture of death. I want my daughter to be able to have cost-free access to a boarding life

00:18:31.040 is sort of the other side of the coin, too. Dad's been around long enough. I'm ready to consent to

00:18:38.500 pulling the plug on him so I can get an early inheritance and don't have the hassle of it.

00:18:43.020 I think it's sort of a two-way hatred in a way. It's interesting you mention this because

00:18:47.780 there was recently, just actually about a week ago, a webinar organized by Dying With Dignity on how

00:18:55.120 abortion and MAID intersect. The entire webinar was abortion rights coalition and euthanasia doctors

00:19:03.240 demonstrating the cohesiveness between the euthanasia and abortion mentality. And we know that

00:19:13.140 one of the webinar participants was a euthanasia doctor who restricts her entire practice to abortion

00:19:20.760 and euthanasia. That's pretty much all she does now. Yeah. And in the earlier generation, that would be 1.00

00:19:25.880 called satanic. You know, there's something desperate going on. And it's a cultural sickness.

00:19:35.100 It's a civilizational sickness, I think. And I don't know how it ends. I don't know how the story ends.

00:19:42.080 Well, I think part of the story will be that this isn't going to cut it. This is not good enough.

00:19:47.080 I, as a young person, am looking out and thinking, we have so many health crises. We have so many mental

00:19:52.900 health crises. We have so many addictions, so much loneliness, so many effects of the pandemic. And I'm

00:19:58.520 looking out saying, what is on offer? Well, you bet the offer better be better than death. This is so

00:20:04.660 drab. This is so pathetic. And I don't think the rising generation is going to accept death as the 1.00

00:20:11.500 answer to suffering and other crises. And so I think there's a lot of hope in that we're not made for this.

00:20:18.180 We're not going to settle. We're not cut out for opting out of life. We are made to be resilient.

00:20:25.060 And there is no good story without suffering. That's not an exclusively religious argument.

00:20:30.500 Everyone has access to the fact that if you think of anyone you admire, any hero, any role model,

00:20:36.620 why do you admire them? Not because they lived a painless, carefree, decadent existence,

00:20:42.540 probably because they suffered with a kind of nobleness to it. And so I think when we restore

00:20:50.100 an emphasis on who do we admire, what stories are worth telling, and what story do we want to have

00:20:57.040 of our own lives, we'll see that all of that is antithetical to a euthanasia society.

00:21:02.200 I think there's a difference between fun and happiness. I think there's a difference.

00:21:07.160 You know, I think of the World Economic Forum, and Rebel News goes there every January. We're never

00:21:12.760 let into any official events, so we just sort of run around the streets chasing these VVIPs. But we 0.97

00:21:17.680 pay a lot of attention to their official outbursts. Everyone's heard of their essay called,

00:21:23.600 You'll Own Nothing and You'll Be Happy. Yuval Noah Harari, sort of the muse of the World Economic

00:21:30.500 Forum, says the future, which will be AI-driven and tech-driven. Most people, he says, will be,

00:21:38.240 quote, useless eaters. Useless eaters. And he says the future for most people is video games and drugs. 1.00

00:21:48.700 And I presume he means pornography as well. No human interaction. Just strap on your virtual reality

00:21:55.640 helmet. Drugs, video games, useless eaters. That's a very dark view of the future. That's the view of 1.00

00:22:05.340 the future that someone like Bill Gates, who says we have to cut the population by billions. There's

00:22:10.820 something dark going on. And I don't know if it can be explained rationally or theologically, but there

00:22:17.540 are people who want to see, well, I mean, just listen to them. Al Gore. I mean, there are people who call

00:22:23.620 human life itself a cancer on the earth. The depopulation activists. If you scratch deeply

00:22:31.080 on environmentalism, extreme environmentalism, reduce, reuse, recycle, reduce everything,

00:22:36.920 including reduce life. I don't know who is on the other side of that. Maybe once upon a time,

00:22:42.660 the Catholic pope would be. I don't know. I hear him talking more about global warming than about

00:22:47.760 some issues that I would expect a pope to weigh in on.

00:22:50.920 He speaks a lot on euthanasia as a false compassion and as one of the signs of dehumanization in our

00:22:56.800 time. And there was a recent Vatican document called Dignitas Infinita, Infinite Dignity. And

00:23:02.120 it's all about these specific crises of dehumanization. And there's a very good section about euthanasia

00:23:07.800 and also disabilities in those. I'm glad to hear it. I'm glad to hear it. Maybe I need to read more

00:23:15.300 deeply, including in Latin. It's not in the headlines. There you go. I want to mention something about how

00:23:20.440 we got here as well. You probably remember the Tracy Latimer case. Yeah. Tracy Latimer was killed

00:23:27.360 by her father, a young woman who had cerebral palsy. And her father, in a so-called mercy killing,

00:23:36.360 gassed her. And it particularly haunted me to realize or reread that he watched her die

00:23:48.520 through the window of the truck. And when I went to visit these former Nazi euthanasia sites,

00:23:56.360 the Nazis would stand outside and look through a window and time how long it took for those victims

00:24:04.100 to die. And so in 1993, when Robert killed his daughter while his wife and other children were

00:24:11.260 at church, what happened after that? In the New York Times and in McLean's, the way that this was framed

00:24:20.180 was that he was a clean-living, honest, salt-of-the-earth farmer, and she was described as a 38-pound, 0.94

00:24:28.360 diaper-clad, non-verbal, disabled kid. And if we wonder how we got to this point of severe dehumanization

00:24:37.440 of persons with disabilities, of the sick, what I have to emphasize is that you cannot have a criteria

00:24:44.700 for euthanasia that doesn't harm everyone who fits it. As soon as you have criteria, everyone who fits

00:24:52.700 the criteria is ejected from the community of human belonging. We make ourselves more precarious too

00:24:59.860 by excluding people because anything could happen to us at any time. And so everyone starts to feel

00:25:06.440 precarious. Who will still love me? Will I still be wanted? And just the other day, a friend was sharing

00:25:12.540 with me about how a family member was tempted to euthanasia because this family member said,

00:25:18.380 well, I don't want to ruin your life. If that is your attitude, then what does that say to every

00:25:24.480 family who welcomes a child with profound disabilities? You cannot have these attitudes

00:25:31.020 without them sending a social message to so many others. And so when we speak about autonomy

00:25:37.720 or independence, it often undercuts the reality that we belong to one another and that all of these

00:25:44.820 valuations of life have a ripple effect reverberating throughout our entire society.

00:25:50.740 Have you ever watched that movie from the 90s called Gattaca?

00:25:53.560 No.

00:25:54.760 I won't take long on it, though. It was about a moment in time when natural born families were replaced by 0.96

00:26:03.500 perfect genetic children. And sort of there was this time before and after. And everyone born after

00:26:09.400 that was the absolute best genetic possibility that could be. And everyone before that was sort of

00:26:15.460 written off. And they didn't really have job interviews anymore. You just submitted a genetic test

00:26:19.420 and the best person would be hired based on that. And the story was about someone who was born real

00:26:26.700 and just said, I'm going to be able to fit in. I want to get to space. So he got a job at sort of

00:26:32.540 the NASA in the movie. And he had a million perfect keystrokes. And he was competing against these

00:26:37.600 perfect people. And he was imperfect. And he had to hide his true identity. Because if they knew

00:26:43.200 he wasn't one of the perfect genetically modified people, they would fire him on sight. And you made me

00:26:50.300 think about that a little bit. Because there was the deep sorrow in someone who said, well, I can. I can

00:26:54.900 try it. I can. Let me try. No. No. We have a criteria here. And you don't fit it. You're

00:27:01.700 genetically inferior. And we're just not even going to waste our time on it. It's called Gattaca. Uma 0.99

00:27:06.240 Thurman was in it. It's Jude Law. And how much more sinister does it make any diagnosis? Right now,

00:27:11.420 we know that the majority of patients who are euthanized, their underlying medical condition is

00:27:17.680 cancer. Well, when you know that, then a cancer diagnosis becomes all the more terrifying

00:27:24.860 and there was that shocking headline in the Telegraph recently of a Canadian woman saying

00:27:29.040 that as she was going in for her mastectomy, she was asked, well, have you heard about

00:27:33.100 euthanasia? In the moment of greatest vulnerability, about to entrust yourself to doctors, to again

00:27:40.200 be presented with the suggestion, maybe you're better off dead. This is so chilling.

00:27:45.600 You know, the COVID bonfire of our civil liberties and destruction of the Nuremberg Code and the 0.85

00:27:52.720 erosion of the Hippocratic Oath destroyed trust in doctors. It didn't destroy it, but greatly damaged

00:27:58.980 it. I think a lot of people are much more skeptical of doctors and health institutions. And maybe one

00:28:06.140 upside of that is that they might look with more skepticism on this new death agenda. Tell me about

00:28:12.120 one last thing. What's going on in Quebec? It's extremely important to know that Quebec is expanding

00:28:17.060 euthanasia for persons with dementia. Already in the 2022 annual report, 9% of the people who were

00:28:24.380 euthanized had dementia. That's documented in the fourth annual MAID report. And now, in violation of the

00:28:31.760 criminal code, Quebec has announced that they will not do anything about it if someone submits a request

00:28:38.140 in advance for euthanasia. And so the person has to be diagnosed with a capacity eroding condition,

00:28:46.260 such as Alzheimer's. And so you have to have some dementia to qualify to make the advance request,

00:28:52.780 but not so much dementia that you aren't disqualified from consenting. And so this is basically a death

00:29:00.140 for dementia policy that Quebec is ushering in. And because it's Quebec, the federal government is

00:29:07.080 turning a blind eye to it, mostly, except that they've actually said they're going to launch a

00:29:12.560 national consultation on advance requests to maybe consider it nationwide. I expect that Quebec will

00:29:19.400 be the first province to euthanize children, and it will be similar. It will be in violation of the

00:29:26.740 criminal code and existing law, where the federal government feels that it cannot possibly intervene

00:29:32.020 upon it, and then a national consultation on perhaps expanding this nationwide. So we need to be

00:29:38.300 extremely vigilant about this further erosion of the value of life and the specific dehumanization

00:29:46.140 of persons with dementia. When this news broke, I got a request from some mainstream media saying,

00:29:51.580 could you please point me in the direction of someone with dementia who can explain why

00:29:56.200 their life is worth living? Imagine. Well, we're in, I won't say we're in new unknown territory,

00:30:07.380 because I'm sure in the course of time we've been here before, I think back to pre-Christian times,

00:30:16.980 pre-Jewish times, I think to the movie Apocalypto by Mel Gibson, which shows what life was like 0.98

00:30:23.920 before Columbus landed in America. It was a society built on murder and human sacrifice. 0.98

00:30:34.340 I'm sure there were pagan sacrifices in every society. And it took millennia for there to be a

00:30:44.960 consensus that life is valuable, because it was cheap for tens of thousands of years.

00:30:51.840 Going back to prehistory, slavery itself, if you read the Bible, slavery is accepted in the Bible.

00:30:59.200 If anything, there's rules and laws about how to do it in the Bible, in the Koran.

00:31:04.500 And it took centuries or millennia to get out of that, to get to some sort of understanding

00:31:11.120 that life is valuable and life should be protected. And as you point out, it was only a couple of

00:31:16.660 centuries ago that slavery was overturned in a systematic way by the United Kingdom and the British

00:31:21.920 Empire. I think we are, we are in a darker time than has been known since history. I'm saying in

00:31:30.820 prehistory, there was this darkness, but we are reaching prehistoric levels of darkness. I don't

00:31:37.580 know if you think that's too dramatic.

00:31:38.800 Well, this is partly why I feel the need to give myself to this work completely, because it is so

00:31:45.760 crucial that we sound the alarm and that we continue to say, this is not normal. And I'm very heartened

00:31:51.040 whenever I speak to people outside of Canada, and I see the reactions on their faces when I share

00:31:55.720 things that, to which Canadians have largely become desensitized. They are my reminder, this is not

00:32:01.860 natural, this is not normal, and also this is not going to last. And so the time outside of this

00:32:07.120 country and speaking with other people really reinforces that to me.

00:32:11.720 So how do folks follow what you're doing?

00:32:13.480 So you can follow me on Twitter, our ex at Amanda Actman, and my website dyingtomeetyou.com.

00:32:19.660 All right, there you have it. That's our show for today. Until next time, on behalf of all of us

00:32:23.900 here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

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Rebel News Podcast - November 15, 2024

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Canada's number one in the world for euthanasia

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