Canada’s socialized health care system is bad at everything, with one exception–killing you. Its medically assisted death program is growing rapidly; in 2024, the government killed 16,499 people, an astonishing 5% of all Canadian deaths. Given Canada’s small population, that would equate to something like 128,000 deaths annually in the U.S.–well over double the number of suicides in this country.
The death program is starting to become controversial. Links in original:
[W]ait times for normal procedures are so long — and doctors are so unavailable — that the government is pushing people with treatable illnesses to use the nation’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program. This includes Jolene, a woman with hyperparathyroidism, an easily treatable condition. That program, borne of a push for “death with dignity” for the terminally ill has expanded into a massive euthanasia program that has killed the poor, the homeless, the mentally ill, veterans, and it’s being expanded to disabled infants and children now, too. Canada is now euthanizing twice as many people as dogs, and Canadians are three times as likely to die by MAiD than an American is to die by gunshot wounds.
Like MAiD deaths, those gunshot deaths are mostly suicides.
While wait times for ERs are often more than 12 hours, and appointments for things like MRIs take six months or more to obtain, there’s one service that’s same-day: MAiD.
One out of every 20 deaths in Canada is triggered by the government-run assisted suicide program. The sheer number is startling. Even more shocking is the speed and efficiency with which it ends patients’ lives.
In Ontario alone, 219 people were killed by the end of the next day following their request for “medical assistance in dying” (MAID) in 2023, according to a 2024 report by an advisory committee. About 30 percent of those deaths occurred on the same day that the person sought the government’s permission to die. The committee hasn’t published comparable numbers since then.
For additional context, Canada’s median healthcare wait time is an astonishing 28.6 weeks.
But you want to kill yourself? Buddy, they got same-day service for that. https://t.co/dcD5vw5AES
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) March 5, 2026
When the person being euthanized is old and sick, it saves the government money. But not all are in that category; some are suffering from depression. All in all, it is a dirty–but growing–business.
