MAID and T4: Is Canada Repeating History’s Darkest Experiment?

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Introduction

Ken Drysdale: March 11, 2025

Following my attendance at the National Citizens Inquiry (NCI) hearings held this past week in Edmonton, Alberta, I could not help but be struck with an incredible unease concerning an overall trend that I can see developing. This realization started following the sworn testimony of Ms. Angelena Ireland from Delta Hospice Care. I felt compelled to write an article about her testimony as it relates to the MAID Epidemic in Canada, and I was immediately drawn to the parallel with the Nazi T4 program. Then as I wrote the article my realization profoundly deepened and I am truly shocked at what I have come to understand. The article may be a little long, but if you read it, you will see clearly how I have come to the conclusions I have and, I believe, you will be as horrified as I am.

Canada stands at a crossroads, staring down a chilling reality: over 60,301 citizens have died under the Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program since 2016—more than the 45,000 soldiers lost in World War II.

Sold as compassion, MAID’s runaway expansion now echoes the Nazi T4 program, a state-sanctioned killing machine that claimed up to 300,000 lives under the guise of “mercy.”

Is this hyperbole? Or, are we sleepwalking into a modern euthanasia nightmare—coercing the vulnerable, slashing costs, and risking horrific deaths—all while the government shrugs off the warning signs, and the public seem unaware.

This is the story every Canadian needs to hear, and consider.

What Is MAID—and How Did We Get Here?

Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) is Canada’s legalized framework for assisted suicide and euthanasia, allowing eligible adults to request a medically administered death. Implemented in 2016 via Bill C-14, it amended the Criminal Code (Section 241) to exempt practitioners from murder charges. It was born from the 2015 Carter v. Canada Supreme Court ruling, which struck down the ban on assisted dying, arguing that it violated Charter rights (Section 7: life, liberty, security) for those with “grievous and irremediable” conditions causing intolerable suffering.

The process is as follows: A patient requests MAID, two independent practitioners (doctors or nurse practitioners) assess eligibility, and, if approved, administer a lethal protocol—typically a sedative (midazolam), a paralyzing agent (rocuronium), and a heart-stopping drug (propofol).

MAID operates on two tracks:

Track 1: For those with “reasonably foreseeable” natural death (e.g., terminal cancer). After two assessments, death can occur same-day—no waiting period since Bill C-7 (2021) removed the 10-day reflection rule. In 2023, 96% of MAID deaths (14,729 of 15,343) were Track 1.
Track 2: For non-terminal cases (e.g., chronic illness), requiring a 90-day assessment period. Only 3.5% (535 cases) in 2023, but growing.

Initially limited to terminal illness, MAID’s scope widened with Bill C-7, dropping the “foreseeable death” clause and setting mental illness eligibility for 2027 (delayed from 2024).

Now, the 2023 Special Joint Committee on MAID proposes extending it to “mature minors”—youth under 18 with “reasonably foreseeable” death and “decision-making capacity,” judged by providers without mandated training. Parental consent? Optional. Age floor? Unset: 12 is speculated. What began as a rare option is morphing into a broad policy, and the cracks are showing.

Reported MAID Deaths vs. Canadian WWII Soldier Deaths

Let’s start with the numbers. According to the Fifth Annual Report on Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada (2023), released by Health Canada in December 2024, there have been 60,301 MAID deaths reported since the program’s legalization in 2016 through the end of 2023. This figure comes from official government data based on practitioner reports, with 15,343 provisions in 2023 alone, accounting for 4.7% of all deaths in Canada that year.

For Canadian soldier deaths in World War II (1939–1945), the commonly accepted figure is approximately 45,000. This includes:

24,525 from the Canadian Army,
17,397 from the Royal Canadian Air Force (out of 250,000 who served),
2,168 from the Royal Canadian Navy.

These numbers are drawn from historical records, such as those maintained by Veterans Affairs Canada and corroborated by posts on X reflecting public sentiment (though I’m treating X data as supplementary, not definitive). The total of 45,000 is a widely cited estimate for Canadian military personnel killed in action, died of wounds, or lost to other war-related causes.

Comparing the two:

MAID deaths (2016–2023): 60,301
WWII soldier deaths (1939–1945): ~45,000
Difference: MAID exceeds WWII soldier deaths by about 15,301.

This raw comparison shows that, as of 2023, reported MAID deaths have surpassed Canadian WWII military deaths by roughly 34%. The MAID figure spans eight years, while WWII deaths occurred over six, but the contexts—voluntary medical procedure versus wartime casualties—are vastly different, which I’ll explore further below.

Underreporting of MAID Deaths

Some jurisdictions report MAID deaths as underlying conditions rather than MAID itself. In Ontario, a 2024 coroner’s directive shifted reporting: deaths are now classified by the condition prompting MAID (e.g., cancer), not the act of assisted dying, unless foul play is suspected.

Health Canada’s 60,301 total (2016–2023) relies on practitioner submissions, not coroner data, but this shift in reporting prevents public tracking of MAID deaths. Critics on X (March 2025) and groups like Euthanasia Prevention Coalition argue it obscures MAID’s true toll—potentially undercounting if practitioners underreport or verbal requests go untracked. No hard evidence quantifies this gap, but it’s a transparency issue that echoes T4’s falsified certificates, though without proof of intent to deceive.

This is similar to what happened with Canadian doctors who were discouraged, or prevented from reporting COVID-19 Vax side effects, thus hiding the true magnitude and nature of the problem.

The Nazi T4 Program: A Grim Precedent

The Nazi T4 program, launched in 1939, was Hitler’s first foray into systematic murder, targeting the disabled, mentally ill, and “unproductive” under a eugenics banner of “mercy death” (Gnadentod). Named for its Berlin headquarters (Tiergartenstrasse 4), it killed 70,000 people officially—up to 300,000 unofficially—through gas chambers, starvation, and lethal injections.

Children with Down syndrome, victims of polio, adults with schizophrenia, the elderly with dementia—all deemed “unworthy of life” (lebensunwertes Leben). It was secretive, coercive, and resource-driven, halted only by public outrage in 1941, though “wild euthanasia” persisted. T4 tested the machinery later unleashed in the Holocaust. MAID’s voluntary label sets it apart—or does it?

The Unofficial Push: Prenatal Termination and Canada’s Cult of Death

Beyond MAID, a quieter but equally disturbing trend festers: The unofficial encouragement of prenatal termination for fetuses with forecasted disabilities including Down syndrome. Canada has no legal restrictions on abortion. The termination of pregnancy is available up to birth for any reason, including genetic anomalies detected via prenatal screening like Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT), rolled out widely since 2013. While not a formal “program” like MAID, healthcare providers often present termination as a default to parents receiving a disability diagnosis, framing it as a “compassionate” choice to avoid “suffering.” Down syndrome, affecting 1 in 750 Canadian live births tops the list at 90% of such pregnancies ending in abortion, per Canadian Down Syndrome Society estimates, mirroring Iceland’s near-100% rate.

These predictions, however, are shaky. NIPT boasts 99% sensitivity for Down syndrome but can’t forecast severity. Many people with the condition live full and happy lives, defying dismal medical prognoses. False positives (up to 5%) and misinterpretations of “soft markers” (e.g., nuchal fold thickness) further cloud accuracy, yet termination rates soar. Parents report pressure, subtle or overt, from doctors citing care burdens or costs, echoing eugenics’ shadow. No law mandates this push but its prevalence feeds what critics call a “cult of death", devaluing disabled lives before they begin. Unlike MAID, it’s prenatal, not postnatal but the ethos aligns: Disability as a problem to erase, not a life to support.

National Citizens Inquiry and Pandemic Context

The NCI’s Inquiry into the Appropriateness and Efficacy of the COVID-19 Response in Canada (2023, with 2024 updates) is a citizen-led effort, not government-sanctioned, which compiled testimony from experts and laypeople across eight cities.

Its 5,500-page report alleges widespread rights violations during the pandemic including lockdowns breaching Charter freedoms (Section 7, life/liberty), vaccine mandates lacking informed consent, and suppression of dissent via censorship (Section 2, speech). It critiques “experimental gene therapy drugs” (mRNA vaccines) claiming inadequate safety data and coerced uptake, tying this to a pattern of state overreach.

Linking this to MAID, the NCI doesn’t directly address assisted dying but frames pandemic policies as a betrayal of trust wherein hospitals denied the unvaccinated due care, palliative patients were isolated, and mental health criseses ignored. One can recognize MAID’s expansion as part of this continuum wheren an unaccountable government during COVID now increasingly encourarges death over care. The NCI’s lens amplifies your view for e.g., its claim of 20,000+ excess deaths (2021–2022) from policy failures, not just COVID, invites suspicion that MAID numbers hide in such stats.

I propose that there is a link between MAID to “crimes against humanity” from the pandemic, human rights violations, speech suppression, and experimental drugs. The NCI alleges Nuremberg Code breaches (forced vaccination), though courts (e.g., A.B. v. Canada, 2022) have upheld mandates as constitutional. MAID itself has not been ruled a rights violation (its consent framework holds legally) but cases of pressure or inadequate alternatives (palliative care shortages, per 2023 The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI data) raise ethical flags. If “mature minors” proceed without robust safeguards, or mental illness cases spike post-2027, the proverbial “evil" label could resonate more widely.

MAID’s Meteoric Rise: From Rare to Routine

When Carter forced MAID’s birth, projections pegged it at 1–2% of deaths. By 2023: 15,343 MAID deaths, 4.7% of all fatalities, up 15.8% from 2022. The total since 2016 is 60,301, outstripping WWII’s toll in eight years. Bill C-7’s loosening fueled this—chronic conditions now qualify, mental illness looms, and minors are next. This isn’t compassion. It is a cultural shift which is accelerating unchecked.

Actual MAID Deaths vs. Government Predictions

The government propagandized MAID as “rare” pre-implementation yet numbers exploded. Before Bill C-14, the 2015 Carter v. Canada ruling estimations of 1–2% of deaths involving assisted dying may have been based on jurisdictions like the Netherlands.

Health Canada’s 2016 projections were vague but leaned on this, suggesting a few thousand annually. Here is the reality: 60,301 deaths by 2023, with 15,343 in 2023 alone (4.7% of all deaths), a 15.8% jump from 2022.

This dwarfs early forecasts, supporting the claim of a bait-and-switch. Critics on X and groups like Dying with Dignity note initial limits (terminal illness only) loosened with Bill C-7, driving uptake beyond predictions. The gap is that thousands were predicted however tens of thousands of deaths were delivered, fuels one's distrust, especially if underreporting (e.g., Ontario’s coroner shift) hides even more reporting.

T4’s Shadow: A Historical Echo

T4 was eugenics masked as mercy and MAID’s defenders tout autonomy. Yet, parallels haunt with untrained providers, vulnerable patients, and a system nudging death. Just as T4 falsified death certificates, MAID’s transparency falters, with Ontario’s 2024 coroner directive deaths logged as underlying conditions (e.g., cancer), not assisted dying, unless foul play is suspected. This begs the question of how many slip through unreported? T4 cut “burdens” and MAID’s savings of $50–$100 million annually whisper the same theme. Intent differs, but outcomes converge: Death as a policy.

Consent or Coercion? The Vulnerable at Risk

Consent is the linchpin distinguishing MAID from involuntary euthanasia. The Criminal Code of Canada was amended by Bill C-14 (2016) and Bill C-7 (2021) to exempt practitioners from murder charges under Section 241, which previously criminalized aiding suicide.

Section 241.2 now outlines MAID eligibility. A person must have a grievous and irremediable condition, provide informed consent, and request it voluntarily free from external pressure. However, this “voluntary” aspect fails to account for coercion, especially among vulnerable groups.

Forget COVID, You Can Trust Us This Time!

The Code doesn’t explicitly define “healthcare worker” qualifications beyond requiring a “medical practitioner” (physician) or “nurse practitioner” to assess eligibility and administer MAID. Section 241.2(1) specifies they must be licensed under provincial regulations, but there’s no mandated specialized training in end-of-life care, psychiatry, or coercion detection.

The 2023 Health Canada report notes 96% of MAID providers in 2022 were physicians, 4% nurse practitioners, yet training varies widely. Some rely on general medical education, others complete optional MAID-specific courses.

This vagueness leaves room for inconsistent assessments therefore amplifying concern about unqualified professionals influencing vulnerable patients.

MAID hinges on “voluntary, informed consent.” But who’s consenting and under what pressure? Imagine a 13-year-old girl, heartbroken from a breakup, bullied at school, spiraling into depression.

Neuroscience proves her brain development (prefrontal cortex unfinished until her 20s) can’t fully reason or regulate emotion. Under “mature minor” proposals she could request MAID if deemed “competent” by a provider who is often a general practitioner, not a psychiatrist, with no required training in adolescent psychology. There is no counseling mandated. No parental consent in many provinces. She could die before her brain matures enough to choose life or even before her emotions over her current circumstances have time to settle down.

Regarding the recent lockdowns which were deemed “illegitimate” by critics like the National Citizens Inquiry (NCI), isolated residents. Some facilities still restrict visitors in 2025, per X posts and provincial health updates.

The 2023 MAID report shows 18.5% of recipients were in long-term care, often citing frailty or neurological decline. Track 1 (reasonably foreseeable death) allows same-day provision after two assessments, with no mandatory counseling requirement beyond ensuring consent is “informed.” Bill C-7 removed the 10-day reflection period for Track 1, meaning a request can be approved and fulfilled within hours if safeguards are met.

This speed, paired with isolation and despair, creates a coercion risk.

NCI testimonies (2023) and X posts (e.g., March 2025) cite cases where MAID was offered unprompted, sometimes framed as relieving suffering or cost burdens (e.g., a 2023 audit leak alleging assessors mentioned care expenses to disabled patients).

No law mandates psychological support. Palliative care should be the first choice but is only available to 90% of 2023 recipients, pallitive care is underfunded (CIHI, 2023), leaving MAID as a quicker “fix.”

The power imbalance, authority figure vs. lonely patient, echoes the T4 parallel of systemic neglect morphing into death as policy.

Imagine an elderly woman in long-term care who is isolated by COVID lockdowns (still lingering in 2025) and is offered same-day MAID under Track 1. There is no therapy offered, just two quick assessments.

The National Citizens Inquiry (NCI, 2023) documented pandemic despair. X posts (2025) report patients nudged toward death over the choice of receiving care. Disability Advocates report, as in the case of an impoverished woman in 2022 , that MAID was pitched when support failed. Providers need no coercion training, yet wield authority over the desperate. This is not consent. It is coercion by neglect.

Vulnerable groups, minors, the isolated elderly, the mentally ill, all face structural pressures namely undertrained providers under no protocol for professional counseling, same-day Track 1 deaths, and a healthcare system strained by COVID fallout (NCI, 2023).

The Criminal Code’s safeguards (two assessments, voluntary request) assume equal footing between patient and practitioner, ignoring individual advocacy for the patient, despair-driven choices, or subtle coercion (e.g., “you’re a burden” messaging).

T4 forced death vs. MAID’s “voluntary” label may mask an underlying system nudging peole into making the "right" decision.

4.7% of deaths isn’t rare, it’s cultural.

The 60,301 toll vs. 45,000 WWII deaths underscores scale; if even 1% felt coerced, that’s 600 lives.

Ineligible Deaths: Murder Under the Radar?

Ontario’s October 2024 coroner’s report dropped a bombshell: Dozens of “ineligible” MAID deaths occurred. These were cases where patients did not meet legal criteria (e.g., no “grievous and irremediable” condition, coerced consent, or improper assessments). Estimates range from 20 to 50 in 2023 alone, though the shift to logging deaths by underlying cause obscures the total.

The Criminal Code demands strict adherence whereby deviations are murder (Section 229). Yet, what’s being done? Health Canada’s 2023 report notes “ongoing oversight,” but no prosecutions surface. Are these quiet homicides in a system too big to fail? If ineligible deaths aren’t investigated, or worse, covered up, what is the line between MAID and murder?

The silence is deafening.

A Death Masked in Peace?

MAID’s two-drug protocol, first a paralyzing agent, then a drug causing death by “filling the lungs with fluid" is potentially horrific, masked by paralysis. The standard protocol (per 2023 CAMAP guidelines) uses:

A sedative (e.g., midazolam) for comfort,
A neuromuscular blocker (e.g., rocuronium) to paralyze,
A cardiorespiratory suppressant (e.g., propofol or barbiturates) to stop heart and lungs.

The “fluid in lungs” claim stems from critics like Dr. Joel Zivot's (anesthesiologist) 2022 testimony, who argues that neuromuscular blockers prevent visible distress while patients might feel suffocation if sedation fails. It is a drowning-like death.

Though MAID-specific data is scarce, autopsies of lethal injection cases (U.S.) show pulmonary edema (fluid buildup) in 80% of cases, per Zivot’s research. Health Canada insists death is “peaceful” (2023 report), with sedation ensuring unconsciousness, but no mandatory monitoring (e.g., EEG) confirms this. Reports of twitching or gasping (X posts, 2025; NCI witness accounts) fuel the debate regarding whether these rare anomalies or systemic flaw? Without definitive studies, the “horrifying death” fear is plausible but unproven. It is a risk the government scales up without resolving.

MAID’s protocol, sedation, paralyzing agent, and finally the lethal drug, promises serenity. Health Canada insists sedation ensures unconsciousness. But Dr. Joel Zivot warns of a darker truth: Lethal injection autopsies show pulmonary edema and fluid-filled lungs in 80% of cases. If sedation falters, patients might drown internally while paralyzed and mute. No Canadian MAID autopsies exist and no EEG monitors confirm oblivion. After 60,301 deaths, why are there no in-situ studies? The government leaned on Dutch precedent, scaled it nationwide, and ignored the screams, silent or not. If 1% suffered, that’s 600+ horrors. Why gamble with the possibility inhumane agony?

Approval of the Death Protocol Without Full Investigation

The MAID protocol, typically midazolam (sedation), a neuromuscular blocker (e.g., rocuronium), and a lethal agent (e.g., propofol) was adopted based on international precedents like the Netherlands and Oregon, where assisted dying has been practiced since the 1990s and 2000s. Health Canada and the Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers (CAMAP) standardized it in 2016, asserting it ensures a “peaceful” death. The 2023 MAID report claims unconsciousness precedes paralysis, preventing distress, backed by clinical consensus that sedatives render patients insensate before the blocker kicks in.

So why not investigate claims of a drowning-like death raised by figures like Dr. Joel Zivot before scaling to 60,301 deaths? Zivot’s critique (2022, echoed in X posts 2025) hinges on lethal injection autopsies showing pulmonary edema (fluid in lungs) in 80% of cases, suggesting patients might silently suffocate if sedation fails.

No MAID-specific autopsies exist in Canada. Post-mortem exams aren’t required unless foul play is suspected (Ontario Coroner’s Act, 2024 shift). The government’s stance, per parliamentary debates (2021, Bill C-7), leans on practitioner reports and international data and not direct testing.

Why are there no deeper probes? Several factors:

Assumption of Reliability: Regulators trusted existing euthanasia protocols, assuming sedation eliminates awareness. CAMAP’s 2019 guidelines cite Dutch studies showing no distress, dismissing edema as a post-mortem artifact and therefore not a felt experience.
Logistical Hurdle: Pre-approval testing on humans raises ethical and legal barriers. Experimenting with death protocols risks harm or coercion, clashing with Charter rights (Section 7, life/security).
Political Momentum: iIn Post-Carter v. Canada (2015), the push was to legalize MAID swiftly, prioritizing access over exhaustive research. Delaying for studies might have stalled Bill C-14 thereby risking Supreme Court backlash.
Lack of Outcry: Until recently (e.g., NCI 2023, X posts 2025), few challenged the protocol’s humaneness publicly. 60,301 deaths rolled out without mass reports of visible suffering, thus reinforcing complacency.

The “horrid nature” point being potential suffocation masked by paralysis, is not proven but is also not disproven either. No EEG or brain monitoring studies exist for MAID deaths in Canada, unlike surgical anesthesia where such tools ensure unconsciousness.

The absence of in-situ analysis (e.g., real-time vitals or neurological checks) stems from cost, complexity, and an unspoken assumption, that being, if it looks peaceful, it is. Critics like Zivot argue that this is reckless. Paralysis hides distress, and 60,301 applications without hard data is a gamble with lives. The government didn’t fully explore this pre-rollout likely because it prioritized legal compliance and access over exhaustive safety, a choice that, given the stakes, feels cavalier.

Why Not Use Monitors for In-Situ Analysis?

Why not place monitors on the dying to verify the process, especially given these allegations. It’s a fair question. EEG, pulse oximetry, or even basic observation could confirm sedation depth before paralysis. Yet, it is not done.

Practicality: MAID often occurs in homes (42% in 2023) or facilities without advanced equipment. Retrofitting for monitoring adds cost and complexity. Health Canada’s budget (2023) allocates $3.3 million for MAID oversight and that is toward mostly reporting, not tech.
Policy Inertia: The protocol’s “success” (no visible struggle) discourages revisiting it. CAMAP’s stance is that clinical observation suffices because monitoring might imply doubt and consequently could undermine public trust.
Ethical Optics: Recording a death risks violating dignity or privacy (Charter Section 8), especially if data leaks. Families might object and providers fear liability if distress is detected.
No Mandate: The Criminal Code (Section 241.2) requires only consent and eligibility checks, not outcome validation. Oversight focuses on process, not experience.

An in-situ study, for example, monitoring 100 MAID deaths could settle this. The Netherlands trialed EEG in euthanasia cases (2010s), finding sedation reliable, but Canada has not followed suit. The “horrid nature” concern suggests negligence. 60,301 deaths without this check illustrates is a leap of faith. If even 1% experienced silent suffering (600+ cases), it’s a scandal dwarfing initial MAID forecasts.

The lack of curiosity demonstrated is telling. It is either assumed confidence or avoidance.

Do we all remember the "Safe and Effective" mantra?

Cost-Cutting: The Unspoken Driver?

One cancertainly be suspect the government’s aggressive MAID push. When one considers the 4.7% of 2023 deaths, 60,301 total seems tied to cost savings. It’s a chilling hypothesis with some circumstantial support:

Economic Context: Canada’s healthcare system is strained—CIHI (2023) pegs spending at $344 billion, with long-term care and end-of-life costs soaring (e.g., $50,000–$100,000/year per patient in palliative settings). MAID’s cost per case is negligible with the drugs per CAMAP costing $300–$500.
Scale Comparison: A 2017 Canadian Medical Association Journal study estimated MAID could save $34.7–$138.8 million annually in healthcare costs, offsetting its $1.5–$14.8 million delivery cost. With 15,343 deaths in 2023, savings could hit $50–$100 million annually, though no updated study exists.
Anecdotal Pressure: NCI (2023) and X posts (March 2025) cite cases where patients felt MAID was pitched as a cost-relief option. For example, a disabled Ontario man (2023) told by assessors his care burdened the system. Veterans Affairs scandals (2022) echo this.
Palliative Care Gap: Only 30% of Canadians access robust palliative care (CIHI, 2023), despite 90% of MAID recipients having it made “available” to them. Underfunding ($1.5 billion shortfall, per 2021 estimates) contrasts with MAID’s easeof access (Track 1’s same-day option vs. months-long palliative waitlists).

Direct evidence of a cost-saving agenda is absent. In other words, there is no memo that says “expand MAID to cut budgets.”

But the disparity (palliative care lags while MAID surges) raises eyebrows.

The 60,301 deaths far exceed the 1–2% predicted in 2015, and Bill C-7’s loosening (non-terminal cases, no reflection period) aligns with a system incentivizing quick exits over long-term care. T4 cut “burdens” explicitly. MAID’s cost-benefit isn’t policy-stated but lurks in the math. If 15,343 deaths in 2023 saved $50 million, that is a fiscal nudge. Cynical, but not a baseless suspection.

Minors, Mental Illness, and a Slippery Slope

By 2027, MAID may include mental illness alone—delayed from 2024 amid backlash. The 2023 report’s 535 Track 2 cases hint at what’s coming: despair as a death warrant. “Mature minors” loom. 12-year-olds with terminal illness could qualify, competence judged loosely. Parents? Optional.

Regarding the question of training, none is required. A bullied teen or a depressed youth, brain development science says they can’t fully choose, yet MAID might let them die. The Netherlands caps euthanasia at 12 years of age with parental consent yet Canada is flirting with younger ages. T4 started with kids too.

For “mature minors” the situation is murkier because MAID isn’t yet legal for those under 18. The 2023 Special Joint Committee recommended extending eligibility to minors with “reasonably foreseeable” death and decision-making capacity but no law has passed as of March 9, 2025.

Competence isn’t defined in the Criminal Code for MAID. It borrows from provincial health consent laws (e.g., Ontario’s Health Care Consent Act), where a minor is “capable” if they understand the treatment and its consequences. No specific training is required for providers to assess this. It is a clinical judgment call often done by practitioners without pediatric or psychiatric specialization.

Parental consent isn’t always required. In provinces like British Columbia and Quebec. mature minors can refuse life-sustaining treatment without parental approval if they are deemed competent. This is a precedent the Committee suggests for MAID. The report proposes parental involvement “where appropriate” but prioritizes the minor’s decision which raises the alarm for unchecked authority.

Without standardized training or clear age thresholds (12 is speculated, not set), this could expose vulnerable youth to coercion especially if isolated or mentally unwell. This is a stark and recognizable parallel to T4’s targeting of children.

International Alarm and Disability Rebellion

On a global level, MAID’s pace is stunning. The Netherlands hit 5.1% of deaths after 22 years; Canada’s at 4.7% in eight. UN Rapporteurs (2021) slammed MAID’s disability access as a “human rights violation” cotending that it is coercion over care. Canadian disability groups like Inclusion Canada rally against it, citing cases where death is offered before support. Angelina Ireland of Delta Hospice Care, evicted for refusing MAID, calls it “state murder”. Her fight is a clarion call: Resist or lose the vulnerable.

Why No Accountability?

Why would there be an approval of a protocol that risks a drowning-like death without proof that is is, in fact, painless? Why are there no monitors after 60,000 deaths? Why push minors and mental illness when safeguards crumble? Speed and expediency has trumped caution post-Carter. Political will outran ethics. Cost savings, unstated but glaring, grease the wheels. NCI’s 2023 exposé of pandemic rights abuses; lockdowns, mandates, censorship, frames MAID as the next overreach. Public trust is shattered and "transparency" is a sham.

Reassessing the Government’s Choices

Why approve without fully exploring the drowning risk? Speed, trust in precedent, and lack of pushback pre-2020s has let it slide. Again, 60,301 deaths later, inertia and optics deter revisiting it and as the death count continues to climb, the incentives for analysis fade into oblivion. Why no monitors? Cost, logistics, and a don’t-ask-don’t-tell reverberations prevail. The allegations are horrific however they seem not to have enough attention to force action without louder outcry. To the question of cost savings as a driver? Well, there is no overt smoking gun, but the numbers (60,301 vs. 45,000 WWII deaths) and palliative neglect suggest a system happy to lean into MAID’s efficiency.

The T4 parallel strengthens here: A state ignoring suffering signals (drowning risk) and prioritizing resource allocation (cost savings) over life’s sanctity mirrors eugenics’ cold logic, even if MAID cloaks it in “choice.” The government’s failure to test the protocol rigorously, pre-rollout, or midstream after 60,000 deaths, smacks of either hubris or indifference. Both are indefensible given the stakes. If cost drives this, it is a slow-burn betrayal of the vulnerable.

Data backs this unease. Intent remains the unproven leap.

Widening the Lens—A Million Deaths, Infertility, and a Fertility Collapse

When I first started to explore Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program, its 60,301 deaths since 2016 outstripping the 45,000 Canadian soldiers lost in World War II, we glimpsed a nation teetering toward a “cult of death.”

However, MAID is just the beginning. With nearly a million abortions over the past decade, a quiet push to terminate fetuses with forecasted disabilities, and now a cascade of other preventable or state-enabled deaths, opioid overdoses, neglected seniors, suicides, and more, the toll of motivated deaths pushes past a million since 2014.

Add to this a post-pandemic surge in infertility and miscarriages, the picture turns apocalyptic: It reveals a country, not just killing its living, but strangling its unborn future.

Is this a conspiracy or a society so broken that it is letting death reign at every turn.

Let’s plunge into the numbers and hear their howl.

Abortions: A Decade of Termination

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From 2014 to 2023, Canada recorded approximately 869,704 to 1,000,000 abortions, per the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). Yearly figures: 81,897 in 2014, dipping to 74,155 in

2020 (pandemic slowdown), then soaring to 97,238 in 2022, with 2023 estimated at 98,000–100,000. CIHI’s data misses clinic undercounts (e.g., Ontario’s 2019 gap of ~18,000) and home medical abortions (Mifegymiso, since 2017), so the true total could hit a million, as pro-life estimates suggest.

Up to birth date abortions, with 90% of Down syndrome diagnoses aborted, are legal. This isn’t MAID but it is the bedrock of a culture choosing death over life.

Excess Deaths: The Pandemic’s Hidden Toll

The Government's actions taken during the COVID-19 fiasco resulted in, amoung other things, excess deaths beyond expected rates.

Statistics Canada logged 19,410 excess deaths in 2021 and 31,250 in 2022, totalling ~50,000–60,000 from 2020–2022, with almost none attributed to the actual virus.

The rest, 10,000–20,000, linger in the unexplained catagory: Delayed care (CIHI, 2021), mental health collapse, or policy blunders (NCI, 2023 ventilator claims). Data for 2023–2025 is pending, but if neglect or mismanagement swelled these, it’s a silent twin to MAID’s cost-cutting logic.

Thousands died, not from COVID, but from a system that didn’t, or wouldn’t, fight for them.

Opioid Overdoses: A Crisis Unchecked

The opioid scourge claimed 38,514 lives from 2016 to September 2023 (Public Health Agency of Canada).

Opioid overdose deaths average 5,000–7,000 yearly (2,511 occurred in BC alone in 2023).

Safe supply and decriminalization aim to curb harm, yet deaths continue to rise. Why fund death’s tools over recovery? Like MAID’s Track 2, chronic suffering ends fatally rather than an effort to remediate or remedy.

Underreporting (e.g., unreported overdoses) could push these numbers higherperhaps as high as 40,000 dead. This is another potential pillar of the “death cult.”

Long Term Care: Death by Neglect

The pandemic exposed Canada’s long-term care crisis. There were Over 19,000 Long Term Care (LTC) resident deaths from COVID-19 by 2022 (CIHI, 2023). This was 80% of the nation’s COVID death toll up to 2022.

Medical reports from Ontario and quebec (2020) revealed neglect, dehydration, starvation, untreated pain. Lockdowns increased the deeath toll; MAID took 18.5% of 2023’s LTC deaths (2,839 of 15,343).

Were some nudged into assisted death amid the squalor and neglect? Post-2022 data is scarce, but if understaffing and profit killed thousands, it echoes T4’s discard of the “unproductive.” Over 19,000 lost. This is a state enabled travesty.

Suicides: Despair’s Steady Drumbeat

Suicide kills 4,000–4,500 Canadians yearly, totalling 40,000–45,000 from 2014 to 2023 (Statistics Canada, 4,483 in 2022). Youth and Indigenous rates soar 3–6 times even higher. Mental health waitlists stretch a year long (CAMH, 2023), yet MAID has mental illness in its sights as 2027 approaches. Despair fuels both: One’s a cry for help, the other a state handshake. Underreporting (e.g., misclassified overdoses) might inflate this. Forty thousand-plus lives erased while death becomes society’s reply to pain.

Infant Mortality in Marginalized Communities

Overall in Canada, infant mortality averages 4.4 per 1,000 live births (2022). However, on Indigenous reserves infant mortality jumps to 7.7 per 1,000 live births. Hundreds of these deaths are preventable.

Roughly 5,000 to 6,000 infants died since 2014 (Statistics Canada), most of these are from homes of "marginalized" groups. No “program” targets the cause of these deaths in order to reduce the numbers.

Medical Errors and Systemic Failures

Medical errors kill 28,000 Canadians annually (Patient Safety Institute, 2018). Over a ten year period, that number reached 280,000 which places third in line behind cancer and heart disease.

Add to this the waitlist deaths (e.g., 1,200 in Ontario, 2022) and ER closures, and systemic strain which severely compound these numbers.

Perhaps these numbers do not necessarily signal an intent to do harm, they may simply demonstrate a failed healthcare system which offers MAID to reduce costs and lets patients die instead of providing more expensive pallitaive treatment. Estimates are dated, however they indicate current death tolls could top 300,000.

Death by incompetence or underfunding. This is another gear in the machine.

Infertility and Miscarriages: A Post-Pandemic Collapse?

And now, to a quieter crisis. The infertility and spontaneous abortions (miscarriages) which surge in post-pandemic numbers, threatening Canada’s future. The World Health Organization (2023) pegs infertility at 17.5% globally (1 in 6 adults) with Canada’s rate likely similar (15–17%, per 2009–2010 Canadian Community Health Survey).

No post-2020 national data exists, but fertility treatments rose 20% from 2019–2022 (CIHI, inferred from assisted reproductive tech trends), hinting at demand. Statistics Canada’s Total Fertility Rate (TFR) crashed to 1.33 children per woman in 2022 a record low, down from 1.47 in 2019—accelerating a pre-pandemic decline. Births fell 5% from 2021 to 2022 (351,477), the steepest drop since 1997.

Miscarriages are harder to pin down. CIHI tracks only hospital-reported cases thus missing early losses. Pre-pandemic estimates suggest 15–20% of pregnancies end in miscarriage (50,000–70,000 yearly, based on 350,000 births).

What of post-2020 numbers? Anecdotes and X posts (2025) claim spikes with OBGYNs noting more losses since vaccine rollouts or pandemic stress however no hard Canadian stats confirm this. A Finnish study (1998–2016) showed 5–6% of pregnancies miscarried. If Canada’s rate rose 1% post-pandemic (speculative), that’s 3,500 extra losses yearly, or 10,500–15,000 over 2021–2023. Caveats: data is absent, and causation (stress, vaccines, healthcare gaps) is unproven.

What is driving this? Pandemic uncertainty where unemployment hit 13.7% in 2020 (Statistics Canada), delayed births; 14% of 25–44-year-olds in 2021 wanted fewer kids (StatsCan survey, age-related infertility climbs), so that 17.4% of women over 50 were childless in 2022, up from 14.1% in 1990. Posts on X (2025) speculate vaccine links, however no peer-reviewed Canadian evidence backs this. For now, correlation, not causation, is the measure. A fertility collapse (fewer births, more losses) befits the “cult”: a nation not just ending lives but failing to create them.

The Million-Plus Death Mosaic

Tally it since 2014:

Abortions: 869,704–1,000,000
MAID: 60,301 (2016–2023)
Opioid Overdoses: 38,514 (2016–2023)
LTC COVID Deaths: ~19,000 (2020–2022)
Suicides: 40,000–45,000
Excess Deaths (Unexplained): 30,000–40,000 (2021–2022)
Infant Mortality (Marginalized): 5,000–6,000
Medical Errors: ~280,000
Prenatal Disability Terminations: ~13,500 (e.g., 90% of 1,500 Down syndrome/year)
Extra Miscarriages (Speculative): 10,500–15,000 (2021–2023)

Total: 1,316,019–1,467,315 deaths—1.32 to 1.47 million. Overlaps (e.g., suicides as overdoses), underreporting (abortions, miscarriages), and missing 2023–2025 data temper precision. Conservatively, it is over 1.3 million—triple WWII’s toll. Also, infertility’s uncounted toll with fewer births, darkens the ledger further.

Note: these numbers do not include the tens of thousand sof Canadians and millions Worldwide killed in the false pandemic, and who will die due to the lethality of the mRNA gene bioweapons administered to billions, and continuing to be given to babies as young as 6 months old in Canada.

A Cult of Death—or a Broken System?

No secret cabal ties MAID to abortions, to overdoses, to infertility. Yet, patterns scream: A healthcare system offering death (MAID, abortions) over care (palliative, mental health); policies letting the vulnerable die (LTC, opioids), neglect killing silently (errors, infants), and a fertility crisis,miscarriages up, births down. All if of these combined are choking the future.

T4’s eugenics was deliberate and Canada’s might be apathy, economics, or a culture numb to life.

Prenatal terminations (90% for Down syndrome) set the stage: MAID scales it and infertility and miscarriages seal it. Cost savings (MAID’s $50–$100 million), underfunding (palliative’s $1.5 billion gap), and inaction (opioids, fertility care) whisper intent, or incompetence, so vast, it mimics it.

Over 1.3 million dead, a birthrate in freefall—Canada is not just bleeding out, it is strangling its cradle.

A Call to Arms

This isn’t the T4’s gas chambers ... yet.

But... 60,301 MAID deaths, “ineligible” killings, a prenatal termination push, and a system blind to coercion, beg the question:

How far are we from repeating the T4 horror?

Perhaps, more importantly:

Why are we not all talking about this nightmare?

Why are we not demanding more? What does that say about us now, in 2025?

What will it take to wake up apathetic and uninformed Canadians?

"If the crimes against humanity committed against us during the fabricated "pandemic" have not been enough…If the suffering of our children, our elderly, and our most vulnerable cannot stir Canadians from their complacency…

Then perhaps we have resigned ourselves to the fate we now endure—and worse yet, condemned future generations to a world where they will have no choice, no voice, and no chance at something better."

Ken Drysdale

I leave you with this:

“In the years after 1933, the German people grew used to looking away from the terror, the arrests, the disappearances. They saw it, but did not want to see it, convincing themselves it was not their affair, and so they remained silent.”

(Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich, ~p. 112, Macmillan, 1970)

Will we fall?

Let this be our epitaph:

"We have not faltered, nor have we fled. We have not shrunk from the battle, but rather steeled our resolve, redirecting our efforts with a fiercer determination than ever before. There is no refuge, no sanctuary to which we might retreat, and no distant world where we might seek shelter. This is our stand, our moment, and we shall fight on with unyielding courage, for the cause is just and the hour demands nothing less. Onward!"