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Canada Slams Brakes On Euthanasia For Mental Illness Indefinitely, Then Votes Down Tory Bill To Ban It Outright

Canada will not extend medically assisted death to people whose only condition is mental illness, Justice Minister Sean Fraser announced Wednesday, as CP24 reports. The Liberals will table legislation this fall to make the exclusion indefinite, although the bill is still being drafted and has no date.

“Canada has made a decision not to move forward with the expansion that is scheduled in the Criminal Code of medical assistance in dying in circumstances where mental illness is the sole basis,” Fraser told reporters on Parliament Hill. The expansion is set to take effect in March 2027, after the Trudeau government delayed it in 2024 until after the next federal election.

Fraser said the decision reflects the direction of a special joint parliamentary committee, which heard from more than three dozen witnesses and reported in June. He cited “very real concerns about people who live in communities with inadequate access to mental-health services” and testimony on “a lack of consensus when mental illness is irremediable.” He said the government had only “very, very recently finally formalized its position,” more than three months after the report, and that it was not “based on where we believe the politics is going to land.”

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Assisted Suicide in Canada: Beware the Slippery Slope

verywhere that assisted suicide has been legalized, critics have warned that, however tight the initial restrictions limiting the use of this so-called process may at first be, its legalization could become the beginning of a slippery slope. Canada was not the first country to legalize assisted suicide. But Canada is presently the poster child for what the slippery slope looks like. Although Canada’s Criminal Code, which governs this procedure, originally required two witnesses to the application it was subsequently amended to require only one. For those who are curious as to where the slippery slope can ultimately lead, a recent case has spelled this out quite clearly: it leads to a criminal investigation.

The term assisted suicide is an oxymoron. Unless one dies of illness, old age, or accident, there are only two ways by which a life may be ended, both of which are defined by agency. If one dies by one’s own hand, then it is a suicide; if by the hand of another, then it is a homicide. But reality is not that simple. Since the assisted suicide process in its various forms was introduced, both the morality and legality of the matter turn on one thing: the patient’s consent. The public is divided on the morality of the process, but the one thing that the public and the law are not divided about is the issue of consent. Everything depends on the patient’s desire and ability to give consent. That is the issue at the heart of the criminal investigation.

Brigitte Stegemann — affectionately known by her family as “GG” — was an eighty-three-year-old grandmother from a devout Christian family. For twelve years, her namesake granddaughter, Brigitte Kranendonk, was GG’s medical advocate and also had Power of Attorney. For the last two years of her life, GG was a resident of a nursing home in the town of Belleville, Ontario. Towards the end of her life, she had some issues in understanding what people were saying to her, in part because she was deaf in one ear as well as partially deaf in the other, and also due to cognitive decline. But her granddaughter Brigitte was always capable of clearly communicating with her even through a medical mask. Therefore, during the two years that GG had been a resident of the home, staff had constantly consulted with her on all matters of care. About five months before her death, GG was diagnosed with terminal stage-four stomach cancer. The possibility of assisted suicide was then raised with Brigitte present, and it was determined that GG did not want to go that route due to her Christian faith.

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Canada’s MAiD Program Was About to Euthanize a Woman for This Insane Reason

Opponents of government-backed assisted suicide have rightly argued that the program always, invariably, leads to a slippery slope of government-backed euthanasia. Those opponents have been proven right time and again, but no more so than with Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program. Hailed as a compassionate death for people with terminal illnesses like cancer, it was meant to ease suffering.

Instead, it’s killing more people than U.S. gun deaths and outpacing euthanized animals, including people with treatable diseases like hyperparathyroidism or mental health issues, veterans, the poor and homeless, and even infants and children. The vast majority of victims are white, affluent Canadians because if you can’t tax the rich to death, you can always put them down like dogs, we suppose.

A Canadian woman’s euthanasia request was recently approved, and the reason is as ridiculous as it is scary: she could no longer cook for her family. That’s it. She wasn’t terminal. She wasn’t actively dying. She just couldn’t cook, and the state okayed euthanasia.

Top Canadian doctors are raising alarm bells over the country’s seemingly quick approval for assisted dying requests, after one elderly woman was accepted based on the fact that she lost the ability to cook meals for her family.

Doctors Gary Rodin and Madeline Li from the University of Toronto shared mounting fears among Canada‘s healthcare professionals over increasing cases of euthanasia approvals. 

The psychiatry professors said they aren’t opposed to legalized medical assistance in dying, but stressed that Canadian law does not require healthcare professionals to guide patients toward seeking alternative help. 

In an opinion piece in the New York Times, the doctors said that the procedure is intended to provide a ‘dignified’ last resort, typically for those who are terminally ill. 

But, in recent years, ‘too many people are receiving the procedure without the opportunity for careful reflection about it with a health provider,’ Rodin and Li wrote. 

‘In some cases, patients are being approved who should not be,’ they added, citing mounting reports of euthanasia being approved for patients claiming loneliness or poverty.

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Canadian church exposed for hosting ‘Hot Potato’ night to promote government-assisted dying

A church in Canada has come under fire for hosting a hot potato night, in which congregants attending can enjoy a baked potato, that focuses on educating attendees about the country’s government-assisted suicide, know as Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID).

St. Timothy’s Anglican Church in Nova Scotia is scheduled to host the event on October 5. An advertisement for the event states that MAID “is a legally available, end of life option for Canadians who are fully assessed, and found yo meet strict eligibility criteria. Making the choice to seek MAID is a deeply personal decision, and such a decision requires accurate, and timely information.”

The church said that staff from the province’s MAID program would deliver a presentation covering the criteria, process, “and the things people should consider” regarding MAID. The advertisement added, “the evening includes a baked potato with all the toppings and a beverage.” The event was first reported by independent journalist Kelsi Sheren. 

The event quickly received backlash from users on social media. 

“Let me be very clear, Nova Scotia and the Veterans Association RCMP did this to their veterans as well about a year and a half ago,” Sheren said. She later added, “this church should be ashamed of itself.” 

One user wrote, “People should be able to walk into a church at their lowest point and find a reason to keep living. Helping the government make assisted death more acceptable is a betrayal of that responsibility.”

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‘She did not consent’: Police investigate Ontario grandmother’s MAiD euthanasia

An Ontario grandmother’s assisted death is under police investigation after her family alleged the 83-year-old was confused, tried to back out and never clearly consented before she was given a lethal injection.

Brigitte Stegemann died through medical assistance in dying (MAiD) on July 10 at The Pearl care home in Cannifton, Ontario, after being diagnosed with stage-four stomach cancer in February.

The case was first reported by veteran Kelsi Sheren on Substack before the Daily Mail published a detailed account of the family’s allegations.

But her granddaughter and longtime caregiver, Brigitte Kranendonk, alleges serious failures occurred in the days leading up to her death.

Two days before the procedure, Kranendonk said she bluntly asked her grandmother whether she understood she was going to die Friday.

Stegemann began crying and said, “I’ve made a mistake,” according to her granddaughter.

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Euthanasia bills will be used to mass murder the mentally ill and the poor as part of the Great Reset’s global depopulation plan

The approved mass slaughter of the disabled, the poor, the frail, the old, the unemployed and the unwanted is, with quiet certainty and to the eternal shame of politicians, becoming global. It is part of the Great Reset and it is an essential part of the depopulation programme.

They call it doctor-assisted suicide, and it’s already available in a number of countries (notably and with most seemingly uncensored enthusiasm in Canada and Holland) – but the concept of death by doctor is spreading fast, and like everything else bad that is happening, it is global. Opposing this sinister, contemptible and malevolent new movement is one of the most difficult challenges we face in the years ahead.

Voluntary euthanasia, aka assisted dying, aka “death by doctor,” really began in earnest in Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg at the start of the 21st century. (Switzerland has allowed assisted suicide since 1942, but only in a vague sort of way in that helping someone kill themselves is legal if the person helping does not have selfish motives.)

After Belgium and Holland allowed death by doctor, there was a hiatus of several years and then came a sudden and seemingly inexplicable explosion in the number of countries succumbing to pressure and introducing similar schemes of their own. (The explosion was inexplicable only to those who do not realise that “death by doctor” is an essential part of the Great Reset.)

Euthanasia was legalised in Canada in 2016. In Spain in 2021, Austria in 2022, in Portugal in 2023, in Colombia in 2022, in Cuba in 2023, in Ecuador in 2024, in Australia in 2025, in New Zealand in 2021, in Jersey in 2026, in Uruguay in 2025, in France in 2026 and in recent years in 13 states in the USA. Legislation is being drafted in Germany and Italy.

In Britain, the pro-euthanasia supporters have for years been pushing hard for new legislation in Britain – for legislation which would undoubtedly legalise the mass murder of the weak and the innocent.

The supporters of “doctor-assisted dying” bills have repeatedly tried to push their lethal legislation through the British Parliamentary System. And each time wise, humane heads have ensured that they have failed. (Curiously, although the most recent two attempts received massive help from the Labour Government, the Labour leaders, knowing that patients prefer their doctors to try to keep them alive rather than to kill them, never had the courage to promote the death-by-doctor bills as official government Bills but preferred the proposed legislation to be presented by backbenchers and then given quiet support in an unsuccessful attempt to ensure it was passed.)

The latest “legalised euthanasia bill,” surely one of the most badly conceived, misleading and dangerous pieces of legislation ever introduced into the British Parliament, was, in September 2026, yet again rejected.

The one certainty is that a small number of people pushing this deadly legislation (more than a few of them professionals, employed to promote “assisted dying”) will be back for yet another attempt at pushing through legislation which will, I believe, eventually result in the disabled, the mentally ill and the poor being killed as part of the global depopulation plan which is part of the Great Reset.

This is already happening around the world. And when similar legislation suddenly appears all around the world, and a clear pattern has emerged, I find myself being suspicious about the motives of those promoting the Great Reset.

When politicians or the public reject “death by doctor” legislation, they are told to vote again. And again. And again. And again. Normally once would be enough. Politicians don’t usually bring back legislation which has been rejected once, let alone five times.

Five times in recent years there have been attempts to introduce “death by doctor” laws into the UK. And five times the attempts have failed.

But the promoters of “death by doctor” bills will try again, despite the fact that the idea of allowing doctors to kill patients is unpopular both with doctors and with patients. No one wants this damned legislation except a few insane fanatics working towards the Great Reset and global depopulation.

“Death by doctor” bills are, like those monsters which used to scare children in the 1960s, never allowed to crawl away into a corner and die quietly. “Death by doctor” bills will always be back because euthanasia (or whatever the politicians choose to call it) is part of the Great Reset.

Every time one of these bills gets rejected, there is another vote, and another vote – in the same way that voters who choose the “wrong” answer at the ballot box are, these days, asked to try again until they get it right (particularly if the vote affects the European Union in any way).

The supporters of this dangerous legislation, which will allow doctors to kill patients who have been convinced that death is their only answer, will say that they will only offer euthanasia to a small number of patients who are in terrible pain and who are desperate to die.

And some naïve and ignorant campaigners may think that’s what will happen.

But in every country where doctor-assisted suicide has been made legal, the rules about who can be killed have been quickly changed – with the parameters being extended and the original restrictions brushed aside.

What starts out as an apparently well-meant service for the few quickly becomes nothing less than the mass murder of people who are regarded by the conspirators and their slaves as a useless drain on society.

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‘Phenomenal amount of blood’: Christian grandmother, 83, euthanized AGAINST HER WILL, dies with hands clasped in prayer

A shocking case of life and death has emerged in Canada where an 83-year-old Christian grandmother was euthanized against her will.

The case involves Brigitte Stegemann, known to her family as “GG” or “Oma,” who had been diagnosed with stage 4 stomach cancer in February.

Her granddaughter who shares the same first name, Brigitte Kranendonk, says she had to inform Stegemann of the bad news, according to the Daily Mail.

“I used very frank terms. I said: ‘Do you know that you’re going to die on Friday?'”

Her grandmother was in visible disbelief and began crying for 45 minutes.

“She was bawling. Inconsolable,” Kranendonk recounted.

The Daily Mail reports:

In a cognitive test, designed to ascertain whether she was sound of mind enough to consent to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), Stegemann “got every question wrong,” believing her two living siblings to be dead, according to Kranendonk.

Yet 48 hours after she wept uncontrollably at the notion of MAiD, Stegemann is said to have died with her hands clasped in prayer, covered in her own blood due to a botched first attempt at connecting the IV, administered by a nurse allegedly not wearing gloves.

Kranendonk is currently in the process of desperately appealing to the Chief Coroner’s Office in Ontario, as well as the Patient Ombudsman and Belleville Police, in a bid to ascertain whether what happened the morning of July 10 at The Pearl care home in Cannifton was legal.

Bereaved and distraught, she claims MAiD practitioners took advantage of her grandmother’s vulnerability to perform the procedure, which she alleges was carried out without express consent.

“She was a vulnerable human being, and they saw an opportunity,” Kranendonk says, her rage and sadness visible.

She suspects the MAiD practitioners were inappropriately ideologically motivated, and believes the chain of events leading up to the procedure should be investigated.

It is understood that the practitioners and care home, who have not commented publicly, maintain that Stegemann had legally consented to proceed.

Kranendonk detailed the gruesome final moments, saying: “There was a phenomenal amount of blood,” recalling how the nurse could not find the proper vein in her right arm to insert the IV, then switching to the left after having “poked her about three or four times with the needle.”

“It is all over my Oma’s arm, it is all over her nightie, soaking through her pillow, all over the sheets, there is so much blood.

“And throughout all this time, mind you, the nurse is not wearing gloves.”

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‘Handled Well’: Dutch Officials Legally Euthanize Toddler in First-Ever Killing of New Child Euthanasia Law

Dutch officials euthanized a 2-year-old suffering from multiple medical conditions, and an official investigation reacted positively to the decision.

NL Times, an English-language news outlet based in the Netherlands, reported that the child, who was born at 26 weeks gestation and lived for two years afterward, was killed at the end of 2025.

But investigators concluded the euthanasia procedure was “handled well,” in the words of NL Times.

The child had brain damage, cerebral palsy, and visual impairment, according to the outlet.

The child also had “frequent and severe epileptic seizures, which were largely unresponsive to medication,” as well as mucus in the lungs.

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Canadian Doctors Promote Plan to Euthanize Newborn Babies

A Quebec physicians’ group is again promoting euthanasia for newborn babies, saying euthanasia can be an “appropriate treatment” for infants with severe disabilities or malformations even though Canadian law still forbids the practice and a baby cannot consent.

The Collège des médecins du Québec, or Quebec College of Physicians, told the Daily Mail it “reiterates that medical assistance in dying may be an appropriate treatment for babies suffering from extreme pain that cannot be relieved and who have severe malformations or serious polysymptomatic syndromes that destroy any prospect of survival.”

“The CMQ believes that parents should have the opportunity to obtain this care for their infant under these well-defined circumstances,” the college said.

That is a proposal, not the law. Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying program, legalized in 2016, applies to adults 18 and older who request it and meet eligibility rules. It does not authorize doctors to euthanize newborns. Yet.

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Macron Officially Signs France’s New Assisted Dying Law

French President Emmanuel Macron officially promulgated France’s controversial new assisted dying law on Wednesday morning.

The legislation, published through France’s Official Journal on August 19, contains 19 articles establishing the right to assisted dying for French nationals or long-term residents, under the terms and conditions established therein by the new law.

Le Monde reports the French government must now publish the necessary decrees for local healthcare workers can put the now-official law into practice.

To receive assisted dying in France, a French national or long-term resident must be of legal age, suffer from what the law describes as a “serious and incurable” illness in its terminal or advanced stage, and be capable of making an informed choice up until the last moment, among other conditions.

As per the law’s terms, an evaluation process conducted by a single physician, with input from other parties, will determine who is edible for assisted dying. A healthcare profesional may administer a lethal substance should a patient be physically unable to do so on their own.

The official promulgation of the assisted dying law comes after years of back-and-forth parliamentary debates and widespread condemnation from the French Catholic Church and other groups opposing to the practice. President Macron reiterated in July that the legalization of assisted dying in France was a “promise” of his administration.

France now other countries such as Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and Uruguay in the list of countries that has legalized assisted dying, among others.

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