🇨🇦 Why Ottawa plans to allow MAID for people incapable of consenting moments before death

The new Liberal line is breathtakingly simple: consent matters right up until it becomes inconvenient. Sean Fraser is fine-tuning a bill to decriminalize advance requests for MAID, meaning the state wants legal cover to end lives after a person is no longer of sound mind and cannot give final consent, as reported. That is not a minor tweak. That is Ottawa crossing the one guardrail even ordinary people understand without a law degree.

And naturally, this is being sold as compassion. The snippet itself spells out the problem: once capacity is gone, somebody else decides the conditions have been met. An assessor, a doctor, a system, a bureaucracy. In Quebec, 3,000 advance requests are already on file and 30 to 40 deaths have happened under those directives. The Netherlands example is even darker: sedation slipped into coffee, physical resistance, then the procedure carried through anyway. This is what happens when a managerial state stops serving the vulnerable and starts managing them as liabilities.

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