“It Was Never Going to Stop”： Kelsi Sheren on MAiD in Canada
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with my good friend and long-time colleague, Dr. Kelly, to discuss the Canadian healthcare system and how it treats the terminally ill. We talk about how Canada's healthcare system is broken and how we need to fix it.
Transcript
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all the made cases that have been going viral, basically internationally.
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I just wanted to ask you, I guess, do you think this is going to be,
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maybe there's going to be a breaking point where Canada pushes back on its made policies in the
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future? No, no, because Canada doesn't push back on anything. Have you seen what happens in our
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country? Sorry not to be negative, but there's a real harsh reality coming for the rest of
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Canadians who don't fully understand the system and understand that it was never, ever going to
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stay as terminally ill. It was never, ever going to stay as an individual, you know, killing grandma
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within, you know, 10 days of her diet and palliative care. And I understand that, you know, a lot of
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your listeners probably don't know me, but I am not going to sugarcoat it for you. It was never
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going to stay that way. They made it very clear in all of their documentation prior to lobbying
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the government and that's always been the plan they wanted to follow the news um the the same
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sort of methodology and ideology that they they have in the netherlands they wanted to follow this
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and they've made that clear america's made that clear that's the path they're going on and every
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other country that's pushing this way except for scotland recently is you know pushing in this
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direction because it's really easy when you start to manipulate language to get a society to accept
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compassion and empathy. It's not compassion and empathy. It's a doctor giving up on you because
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our healthcare system's broken. And we would rather put money into building new, I don't know,
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swimming pool centers in Alberta than we would actually pretend that we need hospitals and
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doctors and surgeons. So of course you have Alberta's new bill that they've been pushing
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back on. I was lucky enough to speak with Alberta about that and my thoughts on that bill. And
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although I criticize it, it's a start. It's a start at slowing the bullet train of death.
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And to be honest with you, a start is something.