My Take | ‘Woke’ Canada has gone from ludicrous to dangerous
- From ‘liberal’ euthanasia to transgender treatment and prison policy, the country is experimenting with its citizens’ lives
I used to be in favour of euthanasia and dismiss the so-called slippery slope argument against it. But Canadians are now learning that the argument is not hypothetical. They are already halfway down the slope, and it looks like they are going all the way.
A Canadian court has tossed out an injunction applied by a father to stop his physically healthy daughter from requesting medically assisted suicide. He now has less than a month to appeal.
The 27-year-old woman in Calgary, Alberta – who has autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but is otherwise healthy – wants to end her life under the government’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) programme.
The father, who has lived with and taken care of her all her life, applied for an injunction against her application. He said her condition made her prone to obsession, and so she had become obsessed with MAiD.
There is no evidence that she is suffering from a serious and irreversible illness, a current qualification criterion for the programme, and her own doctors refused to sign off on MAiD, not once but twice.
However, her MAiD “navigator”, who functions like a personal guidance counsellor, managed to find another doctor previously involved in her treatment to approve the woman’s request. The “tie” in opposing expert opinions, coupled with the woman’s decision, apparently led the court to rule in her favour.