I need you guys to listen so bad, but I’m at least glad people on Twitter are starting to talk about this. The government of Canada is expanding Medically Assisted Death to cull the poor and disabled, and now suicidal and mentally ill (these are usually interchangeable of course here). It is EUGENICS and every single disabled rights organization is against it.
Disability payments are $1,200 a month. The average one bedroom apartment rent in the Greater Toronto Area (greatest pop. area by far here) is $2,000 a month. People with mental illnesses are on months long waitlists to get even a single publicly funded session. Weeks to get privately funded care which costs at least $200 a session. There is no housing here for disabled people. We are in one of the worst housing crises in the world right now.
Doctors are now offering MAiD unprompted to young suicidal people. This woman is 21, a health practitioner literally suggested she kill herself.
This is one of the worst Disability Rights Violations we’ve ever seen in Canada. The government is killing us because it is cheaper than funding healthcare, cheaper than giving people housing and food and basic human rights.
w-wait why are they allowing *suicidal* people this??? that's... what??
It's been suggested to veterans, too. Essentially, it's being offered to anyone struggling to survive, even though that apparently wasn't the "spirit" of the bill. Folks in healthier and more privileged situations have tested to see how easy it is to ask for it, and been offered MAiD to solve their problems almost immediately.
I would like to add that ODSP (Ontario Disability Support Program) is so little that disabled people are literally starving keeping a roof over their heads- I've seen tiktoks of folks on ODSP getting food donations, getting excited, and then opening the food and bursting into tears because nobody donates anything fresh. I've seen someone have a meltdown because after not eating for four days... the food bank gave her a moldy tub of cottage cheese. The disability support system in Ontario is absolutely horrendous, pretty much downright criminal.
tl;dr: It's eugenics disguised as making MAiD "easier to access for those who need it".