Godwin's Law states: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." But sometimes such comparisons are appropriate. Take, for instance, Canada.
The Nazis considered people with disabilities to be “useless eaters” and a burden on the Aryan race. In order to purify German society, Hitler authorized the secret killing of psychiatric patients beginning in October 1939. The Nazi Euthanasia Program became known as Aktion T4 (named after the coordinating Chancellery office at Tiergartenstrasse 4 in Berlin) and marked Nazi Germany’s first campaign of mass murder. T4 initially targeted developmentally disabled infants and toddlers in Germany, but later included adults with disabilities all across Europe.
German doctors and nurses played key roles, killing 250,000 people in a program that was euphemistically labeled as euthanasia. Many of these murders occurred even after Hitler publicly suspended the operation in August 1941. Physicians evaluated patients in asylums, hospitals, and nursing homes where anyone deemed unable to work or harmful to German society was taken to remote killing stations. Many were murdered in specially constructed gas chambers, while others were killed by lethal injection and systematic starvation. ...
Canada may not have the concentration camps, but it has its Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID) program, which the Canadian government describes thusly:
Medical assistance in dying (MAID) is a process that allows someone who is found eligible to be able to receive assistance from a medical practitioner in ending their life. The federal Criminal Code of Canada permits this to take place only under very specific circumstances and rules. Anyone requesting this service must meet specific eligibility criteria to receive medical assistance in dying. Any medical practitioner who administers an assisted death to someone must satisfy certain safeguards first.
Only medical practitioners are permitted to conduct assessments and to provide medical assistance in dying. This can be a physician or a nurse practitioner, where provinces and territories allow.
And the Canadian government will pay for it, to boot.
It was sold to the public as a program only for the worst cases among those nearing the end of life, but it has not remained that way. In their 2025 essay, "The Cautionary Tale of Euthanasia in Canada," by Levi Minderhoud and Daniel Zekveld, they relate:
Euthanasia [under the program] was first intended only for those nearing the end of their lives. Now, Canada has one of the most permissive euthanasia policies in the world, revealing a rapidly increasing culture of not just accepting death, but actively promoting it.
Veterans have called the Ministry of Veterans Affairs looking for help and been offered euthanasia instead. Those with suicidal ideation have gone to the hospital for help, only to be encouraged to consider euthanasia. A woman was even asked if she was aware of the option of euthanasia before going into cancer-removing surgery.
They continue:
MAiD was first legalized in 2016 for Canadians whose death was “reasonably foreseeable.” At the time, a person had to have a grievous and irremediable medical condition which caused enduring physical or psychological suffering to qualify for euthanasia. Think of someone with a terminal cancer prognosis.
In 2021, just five years after legalization, MAiD was expanded to include those whose “death is not reasonably foreseeable.” With this expansion, people with disabilities or non-terminal illnesses could choose to have a doctor end their lives. Think of someone who is wheelchair bound.
The next expansion has already been passed into law, but implementation has been delayed until March 17, 2027. This would allow Canadians suffering solely from a mental illness to be eligible for euthanasia. Think of someone suffering from depression.
Since legalization, the number of euthanasia deaths in Canada has steadily grown every year and showed little sign of slowing down. Between 2016 and 2023, over 60,000 Canadians have been euthanized, with over 15,000 in 2023 alone. Euthanasia now accounts for 4.7% of all deaths in the country, a rate second only to the Netherlands. Euthanasia is now the fifth most common cause of death in Canada. Compare these numbers with Oregon, the first American state to legalize assisted suicide in 1997. In 2023, 367 people died by assisted suicide in Oregon, or just 0.8% of all deaths in the state.
- See also "Why is Canada euthanising the poor?"--The Spectator.
Well whether the implementation for mental illness is not supposed to be until 2027 is probably a moot point as it seems to already be a de facto criteria. Thus, we read in the Daily Mail this week: "Canadian doctor met man, 45, suffering from IBD and depression outside Tim Hortons and took him to be EUTHANIZED." The article recounts:
A Canadian doctor euthanized a man suffering from inflammatory bowel disease and depression after assessing him outside a Tim Hortons, according to officials.
Dr James MacLean has been placed under mandatory clinical supervision for six months following allegations that he improperly administered Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) to two patients.
MacLean was investigated after he approved Thomas Dillon, who had Crohn's disease, for euthanasia.
Dillon, 45, was deemed eligible for MAID by MacLean and a nurse practitioner due to his condition, which led to persistent complications with a colostomy bag, according to medical records obtained by the Globe and Mail.
He also had a history of alcohol abuse, suicidal ideation and depression, according to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) report.
MacLean conducted the MAID assessment outside a Tim Hortons in June 2023 and he was found eligible for the procedure under 'track 2', designed for patients who are not expected to die imminently but who will suffer grievously from an incurable condition.
He then exchanged dozens of text messages about plans for him to be medically euthanized, records showed, which culminated in the doctor personally driving Dillon to a morgue facility in London to undergo the procedure.
The doctor administered a lethal cocktail of drugs into Dillon's system in January 2024, inside a holding facility room in an industrial unit where human cadavers are prepared for funeral homes, officials said.
Well, some will argue, you can't really compare Canada to Nazi Germany on this issue because Canada's MAID laws require the person to be an adult (i.e., 18 years or more older). But even that is under discussion, with some medical professionals asserting it should be extended to "mature minors" and "the Quebec College of Physicians (CMQ) has raised the idea of extending current MAiD practices to cover infants under one year old in cases of 'severe deformities.'"
And I've discussed before the racist nature of MAID in that even the Canadian government acknowledges that 95.6% of the people being killed under the MAID are white.
In the end, what will be the real difference between Germany's Aktion T4 and Canada's MAID? That one government was comprised of national socialists and the other is international socialists? That just means that one government favored Germans and the other hates Canadians.
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