Canada's 5th largest killer!

Explore the alarming rise of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in Canada, now the fifth leading cause of death. MP Tamara Jansen introduces Bill C-218 to halt its expansion.

Transcript

I remember debating euthanasia back in high school in the 20 1970s. Uh and the argument was if we had euthanasia in Canada, it would become a slippery slope and things would degrade very very quickly. This has proven to be true since the implementation of medical assistance and dying in Canada. In fact, medical assistance and dying or assisted suicide, that's a better way of calling it. Assisted suicide is the number five killer of people in Canada. Just like we argued as students in the 1970s, Bill C218 presented by Tamara Jansen, MP Tamara Jansen from the Lower Mainland in British Columbia. Well, she'll be presenting a bill in early November. The first reading will be early November. We

are going to be partnering with ARPA a strategy on how to engage with our members of parliament. You know the um Albert Einstein said this the definition of of insanity is to do something over and over the same thing over and over again expecting to have a change or change because we do it over and over again. And that's craziness. And so I'm going to ask you don't send emails to this. I know we many people are saying send emails and do this. We're actually going to be proposing something a little bit different and something that we actually believe in at National House of Prayer. We're going to ask you to make an appointment with your member of parliament. Go with a group of you

yourselves. Go with your pastor. Go with leaders. Go with a group and meet with your member of parliament in the constituency office. This is important. and discuss your concerns of the expansion of medicallyass assisted suicide because in this version is already in law. It's going to expand. It's already there at a particular point. It's going to expand to bigger. And Tamar is putting a a law in place, a private members bill to stop the expansion of Maine, which would include those that are suffering mental health. Those with depression deserve treatment, not death. And these are the conversations we need to be having with our members of parliament. So, I want to

encourage you to engage. pick up the phone on their next constituency date, next week rather, next constituency week, call, make an appointment, go and talk to the member of parliament. You need to start now. The first reading is in November. The second will be in the new year. So, we've got a window of a couple of months, right? So, they'll be breaking for Christmas break around middle December and coming back at the end of January. So, they'll be in the constituency for a little while. So, make your appointments now. Get in there and have discussions because like we said way back 50 years ago, students in high school were debating this would happen. That was my stance. There would

be a slippery slope. It's more than a slippery slope. It's a fullon luge. How quickly this is gone. And Canada is the greatest purveyor. We are the greatest distributor of a med medical assistance in dying or medically assisted suicide in the world. And again, I'm going to reiterate this statement. I heard this this week, last week with the Christian Embassy that medically assisted dying is the number five cause of death in Canada. I'm Chris Byber, the director of the National House of Prayer, and we will see you next time. Bye for now. [Music]