🇨🇦 Canada built a death regime too bureaucratic to function

A 94-year-old Manitoba woman stopped taking heart medication and antibiotics because the state that eagerly legalized assisted death cannot even administer its own machinery. Marion Penner was denied MAID, shuffled from Steinbach to Vita, and left to rot in a hospital bed while officials hide behind process. Manitoba denies MAID at five times the national rate, has just 20 assessors and providers, and only three outside Winnipeg, as reported.

This is late-liberal Canada in one grotesque frame: endless sermons about compassion, autonomy, and dignity, followed by a rural health system with no staff, no access, and no accountability. The 2017 law lets doctors ignore MAID requests entirely, and Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara’s office responds with the usual sterile talking points about pathways and programs. They can fast-track ideology, DEI, and every fashionable rights crusade, but basic care for actual Canadians outside the urban bubble remains a circus. A country that can streamline death while failing to deliver medicine, palliative care, or honest governance is not progressive. It is decadent.

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