Douglas Murray on the horror of Canada's euthanasia laws | SpectatorTV
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- Douglas Murray joins John Connolly to discuss Canada's proposed expansion of its euthanasia laws. From next year, people who are mentally unwell will be eligible to legally take their own life. What is Trudeau thinking?
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As a Canadian, I am mortified by our federal government. Trudeau is a horrible horrible man!
Same. It's unbelievable how much damage he's done.
@@siriusfun I am worried that PQ and ON will vote them in again...........
He is no man.
Morally bankrupt and the epitome of evil
Trudeau [like many other leaders] is a Narcissist NPD and quite possibly psychopath/sociopath.
As a Canadian, it was easy to predict this slippery slope. The current government has no moral compass.
Do you remember what comes after aktion t4?
Just understanding medical upcoding and medical gaslighting and psychiatric prescriptions sedating people and causing cognitive damage, it seems like it was and end goal for a long time?
yup they just keep lashing out at anyone who makes any sense. Im from BC canada and its in a whole depression and the government is encouraging it at this point. WTF
.....and if a government loses its moral compass, do people have to lose it, too? Maybe if they had kept their moral compass in Christ, people could still say NO!?
@@sdrc92126 Genocide, specifically the Holocaust.
My friends mom had her life taken by M.A.I.D on June 6th, 2023. She was healthy, no disease or chronic health issues. She was just depressed. Her husband passed during Covid, and with all the lockdowns and other cruel government Covid mandates, she was alone and unable to get mental health help to deal with her husbands death. She was offered death as her cure for depression. The family thought she’d be declined, as she was healthy and just sad. Sad and depressed. They were horrified to find out she was approved. This is sick and demented. My government has lost its way. I guess now we’ll be killing handicapped, mentally ill and sad people. Who’s next? The poor?
currently MAID is not legal under the circumstances you relate. You must have an incurable condition that causes suffering. Mental health as a sole criterion is not legal until next year.
@@Hereford1642 well, obviously you’re wrong, because it’s happening. She had NO health issues. The one son had her talked into moving in with him and his wife at their home in Mexico. At the last minute, she dropped this tidbit on them. They were horrified. They told each other that it would never get approved, but to their horror, it was. Both sons sat and held her hand and said goodbye. They said it wasn’t as bad as they’d expected, but it reminded them of putting their dog to sleep. Imagine that? Treating our elderly like a family pet being euthanized. It’s bloody demented!
@@JustGoAdventureWell... they do call us 'useless eaters'. It's right there in the language.
@@JustGoAdventure First, my condolences. I have no doubt what you say is true. There is evil at work, and the man (man????) in the big chair is at fault.
@@JustGoAdventure How terrible 🙈🙈😢
I am a survivor of a mental illness and if such laws were available to me when my illness was at its worst, I probably would not be here to write this comment. Fortunately for me, help was available and today I am a contented and happy person. These laws are an abomination.
I was just thinking the exact same thing. As a suicide survivor, there's no doubt in my mind that I would have signed up. But , am now doing better and can't imagine not being alive !!
Funny that we are against the death penalty for criminals but OK with the death penalty to the elderly and ill
And for children in utero.
? I'm in favour of being helped to die without agony. It is absolutely valid, but the difficulty is enabling it in a purely compassionate way.
Both are dreadful. We also allow infanticide and don't penalise it. Lovely.
@@Nuj-rx8wksome infanticide is legitimate... Do not be simplistic.
As it says in the Bible (and i am not a Christian but my mother was), in the end, nothing will make sense.
There was a perfectly healthy Canadian paralympian who wanted a mobile staircase installed in her house who was asked if she'd considered euthanasia. Need we say any more.
Maybe they will have a nurse circulating the ER waiting room, or perhaps the airport during flight delays.
Who was this?
@@EmperorsNewWardrobe Christine Gauthier - five-time world champion paracanoeist.
Makes Nurse Rachet from One Who Flies Over the Cuckoo's Nest, look quite compassionate, compared to the Canadian MAID Policy. Madness.
👽☠️🤖
Next it will be AI with MAID.
This is called the bigotry of low expectations. Is this athlete brain dead? I'm sure he/she can tell the person who made this suggestion to go to hell.
thanks to Douglas Murray we in Canada know what our government is doing. Trudeau should be ashamed. We need a new leader.
As a Canadian, I’m appalled by the new MAID developments. Our government refuses to invest in improvements to mental health care, and for those with disabilities who are desperate for help. MAID is a cheap form of “medical “ “care.” It brings tears to my eyes.
All the National Emergency Strategic Stockpile (NESS) has been donated and is gone! Time to ask questions and get answers!
Where is that Auditor General?
Don't cry, get mad.
Health care is handled by the provinces, so I suspect since you should know that you likely are not Canadian nor do you live in Canada.
@@olympiahendrix4392 Sure, so it will take tax dollars to keep it up to date. Glad to know you are willing to pay more on your taxes. A good patriot. The country thanks you.
when killing citizens becomes medical aid. I am done with this country. we need a reform of government NOW
@@steelcom5976 Not glad you want to murder people who are suffering. Try moving to putinland
Worst Canadian government ever. 😢
I don’t think you can call it Government any longer. Call it like it is. Dictatorship. This world is going downhill so fast and to think so many are so brain washed at this point and don’t care.
Dead right . . . they make us yearn for the good old days of Stephen Harper!
Nope
LMFAO..They have not tried to increase the retirement age..like the Harper scum bags, they have not tried to cut healthcare...like the conservative scum bags...ewtc etc etc. If you believe that this country is in even worse shape then I thought.
Actively murdering those who become depressed by your policies-yeah, I’d say that’s like a top ten of worst governments anywhere, at any time in human history. The human rights violations are off the scale.
Start with Trudeau.
lol, made my day
Couldn't agree with Douglas more. These laws are horrifically evil.
Aktion T4
The politicians in Canada are evil and throughly despicable criminals.
Google stop deleting my comments.
Again, people should be allowed to take a dirt nap. God commands it.
Guess the truth hurts so Google deletes. Must feel gross to know Google decided arsen9847 to immature to read the truth
Of course there are times when euthanasia is a strongly appealing option, but to legalise it is to open the door to evolving abuse and a barrel of worms. Today, it is terminally ill people in their 90s, in much pain. Tomorrow it is a healthy person who has just retired and can no longer financially support themselves. Culture does change. It was only 2 generations ago that to be gay was criminal in the UK. Now to speak one's opinion against such is criminal discrimination.
Those who have not suffered from severe depression don’t understand. A life of existential excruciating pain, suffering and zero positivity is torture. Where there is zero joy, zero positive feeling in life, only darkness and suffering. Decades of psychiatrists, psychologists, medicines, therapies, trying everything until the closet is empty. If nothing works to relieve this, then the release from this is humane.
The notion that Trudeau is a sympathetic or empathetic person is a joke.
I really would like to offer him MAID.
@@owensthilaire8189 I'd like him to accept it. Him and a few others.
Well if its a joke then it's in pretty poor taste just like Castreau
how come its not funny ?
@@malcolmarchibald6356
I See So You Have No Problem With Prisoners Being Executed Compassionately But Not People Suffering From Medical Illnesses Causing Them Chronic Pain Interesting 🤔
My sister, living in the most liberal part of Canada, underwent gender reassignment surgery over 30 years ago. For 3 decades she has struggled with serious medical complications and suicidal ideation and now the health care system is suggesting to her that she should investigate her options under the M.A.I.D. program. There are no options (plural), they are simply suggesting that she allow them to kill her. I am outraged by this! I've struggled for 30 years to help her value her own life. She freely admits now that her gender transition was a mistake - a realization she came to around 10 years ago - and in her most vulnerable state she is now being urged to just die.
Oh god that’s awful.
😥
Appalling they are actually pushing it onto people
Your sister’s story needs to be heard now more then ever. Please if you will share for the sake of our children. Wishing you well and may your sister finds peace and love. 🙏🙏🙏
That must have been and still is awful … in the name of compassion … thoughts are with you and your sister
As a Canadian who has always lived in Canada, it's my belief and understanding that it is now easier to obtain a legal assisted death (MAID) than medical care. Things are in a very sad state. Trudeau needs to now go away, permanently, and I think has caused potentially irreparable harm to this country and its people. Heaven help us!
Send in the MAIDs to clean up the PMO......
Do not be surprised if there is profit in it, like organ harvesting, experiments, etc.
It's not him , it's our itching ears listening and thinking we can have control and ease.
Douglas Murray is such an eloquent and thoughtful person. Bravo.
It's interesting. Canadian Health Care Insurance *does not cover psychotherapy sessions* - they don't pay for visits to the psychologist. *But, they cover euthanasia....*
Depopulation agenda
And politicians think this fine.
I'm Canadian and one of my friends was a volunteer with the Canadian Mental Health Association. She told me that free mental health care IS available via various community groups. I asked how competent the practitioners were and she said it was a hit-or-miss proposition: you might get someone good but you might not.
It’s many, many visits, vs one or two.
@@hughmungus1767 That’s every single healthcare group.
As a Canadian there is nothing “lovely” here, I am terrified of our medical system and stay far away from doctors as much as possible
Same here uk
I hear ya, Alberta here and this place is absolutely terrifying now.
@@raven1864 No, we dodged a bullet by not voting in NDP communists.
It's going to get worse as it become privitazed. You can either pay for treatment. No money, goodby.
@@jenn5eTrudeau is a communist tho
As a Canadian, it sickens me to no end. It has become a dystopian nightmare which many Canadians are STILL asleep to….unfortunately.
Douglas is a national treasure, a great thinker and speaker. You don’t ‘try’ euthanasia - it’s an end game, horrific end. 😢
You should be forcibly vaxxed too. The state owns your body.
He's also a white supremacist who believe that whites have the right to kill non-whites as a means to an end.
I've lived in Canada for 45 years and it is a woke nightmare with no end in sight
Where are you originally from?
Vote Poilevre next election.
@@siriusfun
No matter who you vote for, you can only have Klaus Schwab chosen one's.
Not just in Canada but all over the world.
NWO One World Government has been in the planning since 1971.
"King "Charles is right up there with Klaus Schwab. WEF.
UK is a woke nightmare as well, we aren't far behind you.
Woke is the new nazi
OMG! This is shocking! Canada needs a new government ASAP!
Shocking ? Bollocks ! As a Canadian, I agree absolutely with this law. Freedom to end one's life on one's own terms, not be kept alive by some idiot moral argument that you agree with and which causes me to remain alive in extreme pain knowing I'm never going to get better... but you'll be feeling good about yourself.
@@johnvaleanbaily246Extreme pain is one thing. As is a terminal illness but PTSD ffs?! How can a government that is against Capital punishment for horrendous crimes agree to assist people to kill themselves with conditions that CAN be treated successfully with therapy and meds. Where does is end????
Canada needs a new people
@@johnvaleanbaily246 what about the people who are only wanting the medical treatment that the Canadian government is supposed to provide them with and instead have to deal with the government wanting to assist them in dying to save the money that their medical care would cost? How would you deal with this situation, if you were in their shoes?
@johnvaleanbaily246 Assisted suicide for people with terminal conditions is one thing. But mental illness? Really?!? Are you are out of your f**king mind? That is literally the definition of a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
Canada needs new leadership ASAP.
60% of Canadians support MAID and its expansion.
Canada's horrors aren't top down. They're bottom up.
It is a basically evil, basically wicked society.
Then get the buggar out of office at the next election.
Not possible as long as Canadians like their current leadership.
Douglas you are so right our country has gone crazy. It’s insanity.
I see "Douglas Murray" and I click. He's terrific.
As a former nurse employed in mental health, we did all we could to stop people from dying. Mental health is dynamic... people CAN improve. This is insane... literally insane.
And that funding for help will continue, unless the conservatives get in and cut funding. Or make it private which most people will not be able to afford. Then first responders get to deal with the mess which destroys their mental health.
Not all cases are the same of course. Do you believe an adult who wants to die should have the right to a humane death? We’ll go from there
@@dranderson6071 it was my fathers choice. But i also have seen a person totally without hope (that would've made that choice) recover, and find meaning in life again.
@@dianegreger2720 So that was a yes ?
@@dranderson6071 i don't feel that mental health is static.... its not like a terminal cancer diagnosis... and in the cases where it might be appropriate (such as alzheimers or dementia), the client is considered incompetent to make that decision.
I have two friends who are blind and who live in Canada. Both of them have been pressured lately to accept death. Both of them are in their 30s and are in good health other than blindness. I am appalled that one of my friends had a nurse say that she couldn’t imagine how anyone would want to live if their eyes wouldn’t work. That’s disgusting! One of my friends is a computer programmer, and the other has her degree in law.
Awful! And frightening.
Good God! - what the hell is creating these monsters calling themselves 'Canadians' today; may God have mercy on their demonic souls!!! That is all!!! RGB-Y3 out!!!!
Sounds like a lie. No one would suggest that unless it was an internet troll. So you are either lying or someone said that shit online.
This is appalling 😢
First, the nurses are brainwashed into putting something fatal or crippling in your arm, and then are paid to goad you into suicide from the pain that results. What a career option! If you weren't around for the concentration camps and feel you missed out, come become a Canadian "nurse"!
As a Canadian, I am ashamed. I did not vote for Trudeau.
who did?
Enough people for the liberals to form a government. Don't forget how sick of the tories we were in 2015. @@olympiahendrix4392
2025 to put things right.
I am ashamed that I did!
Douglas Murray is so eloquent, to the point. It reminds me of a better time when people used to be on side of the truth no matter who got hurt.
We live in lies! Waiting for the other shoe to drop! Who is behind all this?
As an MD, I am absolutely appalled by this. Where are Canada’s physicians? Why aren’t they speaking out about this? How is it possible to go through so many years of medical training and simply decide it was all for nothing and killing patients is the better way to go?
Many who have spoken out against the government's handling of Covid-19 have lost their license. We got the message.
for the same reasons they did not speak up regarding the pandemic: cowardice, ignorance and fear
They're probably on the payroll. Give a doctor money and they become as trustworthy as a used car salesman. I am truly sorry if this offends you as an MD, but it is absolutely true.
@@ivancho5854 some certainly, but I think most are just overworked/busy (thus don't have the time for research) and trusting towards their medical authorities and news sources, which all said go ahead
Our health system is government controlled. Need I say any more.
The current euthanasia laws in Canada are far to wide reaching as it is. My sister was suffering from dementia and she had been convinced to give Power of Attorney to her partner, by her partner. She went into the hospital after suffering a fall during a manic episode. Her boyfriend/partner who would have been awarded all her assets (which were substantial) upon her death, was presented by the hospital the option to euthanize her. They had already begun the process by disconnecting her saline drip, and withholding water and sustenance. An old childhood friend who worked at the hospital phoned me to inform me what was going on. As a family (3 brothers, 2 sisters, her 2 daughters and son) we managed to end the process. She would very likely have died, painfully suffering from thirst and starvation if a single good natured soul had not picked up the phone and called me.
Frightening. The love of money is truly the root of evil.
Sounds like you, her family, neglected her for a long time and stepped in only when you were about to lose out on her inheritance.
@@vaska1999 There are times I cannot grasp the cruelness people are capable of. What a horrible thing to assume. None of my sisters siblings would have inherited a thing. I believe I said she had 2 daughters and a son, who all lived hundreds of miles away. There were due to inherit everything until her partner (a drug addict) subtly convinced her to hand over Power of Attorney. I saw my sister regularly, and was at her beckon call as we both lived in the same seniors facility, and her younger sister saw her, or called her (during her more lucid moments) once a week. We were not aware she had been hospitalized, as all this took place over the course of about 3 days. Her partner had not phoned us (as he had done in past instances). Fortunately I was able to contact her daughters who were able to intervene, ending the forced deprivation of sustenance a day after the hospital had initiated it. To stay on topic though, Canada's euthanasia laws are far too lax. One would think that before initiating an order to withhold sustenance from someone in hospital care until they die, all efforts must be made to contact immediate family members! At the very least there should be provision within any humane euthanasia legislation, whereby those who are do not have the current mental capacity to give their consent, every effort must be made to contact immediate family members. The prevention for a 2nd party to benefit from the death of someone being euthanized, must an integral clause in any humane and just euthanasia legislation. It clearly is not, in the current Canadian euthanasia legislation.
So they already started the kill before asking?
Very interesting
@@blackeyedturtleI got what you were saying. It's appalling that someone would accuse you of not acting in your sister's behalf. I believe at one time, they called it crimes against humanity. Governments can convince people of anything. I can only hope those critical of you jump to the front of the line.
As a Canadian, growing old is terrifying. Assisted living conditions are appalling and many are thinking that checking out on our own time is more attractive than living in poor hygiene, mediocre food etc.
Love all of the Icons behind Douglas
As a 41 yr old male born and raised in Canada who struggles hard with constant suicidal thoughts and erradic tendencies, I very strongly disagree with these new laws. Euthanasia is not a flippin' solution. MY KIDS NEED ME, which is why I keep fighting and trying. Everyone has a different life, but euthanasia is not the answer. Terminal illness, while having worthy debate points for, is such a sensitive to misuse item, that itself makes it such a strict medical option.
Such strange winds blowing, in so many facets of everyday life... feels off, these times...
Praying for you…🙏…may you live long and prosper…always remember there are many things to be thankful for…I know what depression feel like…blessings
🙏🙏🙏 we all need the peace of God Philippians 4:5-7 🙏
Please young man find a church of people who will stand with you against the thoughts that you have. You are precious to God and those of us who don't even know you. Fight this and you will be a hero to your children. ❤️🙏
@@sharonleis1365 Appreciate the kinds words, I got my family and it keeps me going. If there's a god well, appreciation for them
@@Goldencitygirl Appreciate it but pray this euthanasia law insanity gets struck down somehow
I am but one, that affects sooooo many
That example that Douglas pointed out in Brussels is possibly one of the sickest things i've heard in a while. They literally put down a girl who witnessed her friends die at the hands of absolute scum of the earth, yet don't execute the terrorists, there is something very wrong here, our western countries are absolutely losing their minds. How we don't allow the death penalty for barbaric psychopathic heathens is beyond me. Yet they think it's fine and dandy to legally kill a traumatized girl, incredible, the west is crazy, it's gone mental
Put the murderous psychopaths down, and the young lady who was suffering should have just been given the help she needed.
Take a look at the fact the medical world attracts narcissists… they love authority and control over others, another piece of the puzzle read the” Flexner Report “ fascinating report on how the medical world became what it is….. Starts with some heavy hitters like Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundation…. the system they created took the healers out of the equation
The west, amerika and other non european countries.
The world is run in an evil agenda that's why law is protecting bad people
This policy is incredibly dangerous for people that suffer from things like bipolar, as someone that's lived with family members suffering from this condition, I can tell you that they aren't always in their stable state of mind when rationally considering suicide, but can come across as mentally sane in those moments. I've known bipolar people that wanted to die when in a bad state, but once the episode is over, they love life again and want nothing more than to live a fulfilling life.
There was a woman that was in the army she was at training camp and she go hurt and ended up in a wheel chair from her injuries. She is young the only help she asked for was a wheel chair ramp so she could get out of her house so she got offered maid. In order for her to get her wheel chair (which was just a manual one not electric) she had to sit on the veranda and bounce her chair down the steps. And she was offered MAID. wow we have evil people in parliament.
It's hard not to be cynical and suspect that the financial incentive is not a large factor in promoting euthanasia. I am horrified by what Canada is doing.
100% this.
Are you a happy or content person?
Evil. Pure evil.
@@helenestiernstrand6575
It seems to me that Canadians asked for this. Look at how the compliant fools stood in line to get the coof death/clot shot. Very few Canadians had the critical thinking capacity to question that!!
Baaa, baaa, baaa. I am not surprised that Trudeau was able to shove this down the throats of people who equate compliant stupidity with virtue.
Patient: doctor I have a terrible sore throat.
Doctor: hmmm. Would you like to try MAID?
Patient: for a sore a sore throat? Will it work?
Doctor: well I haven't had any complaints yet...
How can people with mental illness really be fit to make a judgement on their continued survival...? When I had chronic suicidal depression it is very likely that I'd have opted for euthanasia if it had been available. Today, I'm glad to be alive and cherish every day...
My daughter is 28 years old and mentally ill. She's repeatedly tried to use outreach and emergency services, at a hospital with one of the largest mental health departments in Canada, and can't even get through triage. She's now homeless and full blown scitzophrenic. That's the access to services on offer.
Your daughter is homeless. Why don't you help her?
@@geoffpoole483 I've used court orders to hospiralize her multiple times. Spent 2 years of lockdown with her ,with 911 on speed dial. Some days I'd log over 20 calls to emergency services. While I appreciate you think because she's my daughter, I can magically compel her to do anything like she's a minor, I assure you that's not how adults with scitzophrenia work. I'm not subjecting myself to physical harm etc because you think she's a walk in the park to deal with unmedicated. She's non functional and endangers other people. Why don't the services she's entitled to help her,?
She's mentally ill and homeless.
Stop infantalizing the mentally ill and expecting their families who have zero access and support ,without a fully compliant patient. Very Alblist of you.
People with your attitude are the problem. She needs psychiatric care. In and out patient.
@@geoffpoole483 Because the story is made up. One of the top comments under this video is a guy saying his friend was forced into assisted suicide because he’s blind. People are just lying.
Schizophrenic!
Mr Douglas is absolutely spot on ....well spoken 🇨🇦
How do they expect people with a mental illness to be able to decide their own fate? This is frightening.
The government is deciding it
that's the point. free ORGANS for the rich ELITISTS!
They just want to kill people who are a burden on the state and fall into their woke globalist bullshit.
I have severe depression and am suicidal. Despite that, I am completely lucid and mentally competent. I just don't want to suffer anymore. There is no other way to end my suffering besides death.
@@rong2912 You forgot the most important factors: you're a narcissistic maniac and your hubris climaxes at the claim to be mentally competent which you aren't.
Trudeau must GO!!
to hell...
Douglas Murray is a treasure.
was always firmly in favour of assisted dying for the terminally ill. Then I studied a disability unit at university, and the tutor had us learn about some things that made me think again. She didn’t thrust her beliefs down my throat, she just had us write about our own beliefs and why we had them, and then she exposed us to some uncomfortable information. This included reading about the early targets of euthanasia by the doctors in Germany in the 30s, including the propaganda aimed at people with Multiple sclerosis, saying if they love their partner, wouldn’t they want to stop being such a burden on them? How the intellectually disabled, the people in the psychiatric institutions, and even alcoholics were exterminated.
This is a most dangerous and slippery slope, and I’m also deeply concerned that this is not the only sign that eugenics may be making a come back. I read an article the other day by woman trying to convince us that if we agree to genetic screening to try and avoid having a baby with cystic fibrosis, then we agree with eugenics. While this may be technically true, the fact that she felt the need to write this article and try and normalise the term and make it ok was quite disturbing, especially when seen in light of other similarities from that era. Chilling.
The entire lockdown is a huge red flag of 1930’- Germany, and they will do it again with some fear based narrative, the digital id, digital money will be the leader’s utopia…. They look at China’s leader with awe and affection
Glad you wrote your comment. The similarities with nazi era propaganda and ideas are uncanny! One must ask the question: where is all this madness coming from? I too believe there is a strong connection. If you know history, you know the nazis never went away. Fact
Pointing to the Holocaust is not an argument; It is a disgusting abuse of argument. The counter argument to that is to bring up he despicable role of the hierarchy of he Catholic Church in the Holocaust. You know what happens then? Debate is over. Everyone retreats to their corner and there in nothing left to talk about.
If people are being coerced or abandoned into assisted suicide, I'm with you, that is ethically repulsive. It must be investigated and STOPPED.
That does not invalidate the fact that every person, with a clear and conscious mind, has the right to chose to terminate his or her own life. The question is "Who decides?" The answer is: "If it my life it is not you."
I'm 79. if I was not attached to my life I'd have been dead a long time ago. I want to see my grandchildren (age 8 & 10) graduate from college, but there may come a time when I am faced he the inevitability of a degrading agonizing last patch of life, as i shared with both of my parents. I may chose not to endure that hopeless time. If i make that choice, I won't ask you for permission.
I am a psychotherapist and a deeply liberal person, and I am absolutely appalled by this law. This will make it so much harder to treat depression in general, because if death is available as an official option, it'll be damn difficult for any therapy to compete with the allure of just ending it all, which is such an attractive proposition to many depressed people. We will end up losing many, many members of society who would otherwise have been able to recover and lead happy, productive and fulfilling lives. What a truly atrocious, tragic and dystopian development this is! I hope everyone in the mental health profession, as well as the rest of society, resists this misguided law with every ounce of their strength.
Cram trans BS down their throats in grade school and then offer them this when they realize they made a mistake..... You voted for that Doc and now you're appalled. SMH... well it's a start....
This is Eugenics, painted in another color. A political correct way to clean the society out of the weak, old, and mental patients.
I deeply respect your political stance, and I’m glad you see this otiosity. Until your party recovers from its own disease, and mental issues I suggest you humbly vote on a conservative side until your party gets out of this tyrannical behavior. Im conservative but never voted for any of the Bushes. We have to be able to see through their agenda. This is all part of population control. Just like Covid, just like homelessness with is in high numbers because of drug addiction, and mental health. Their solution is housing, and providing them with needles, etc.
in California it’s insanely corrupt. They do not want these people to get off the streets or prosper. No focus on interventions and long term sobriety.
Thank you for your open mind in advance for reading this. I hope you are having lots of progress with your clients/patients 🙌🏼🙏🏼
are you seeing it yet ? the extreeeeme folly and insanity of this fake "liberal" agenda and allure of being so correct doing these wonderful things for people ? THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS ! you may be thinking of yourself as a liberal BUT DO NOT CONFUSE YOURSELF WITH THESE MARXIST ANARCHIST TRAITORS THAT HAVE HIJACKED THE LIBERAL PARTY FOR THEIR EVIL PURPOSES OF DESTROYING SOCIETY
Since when did you determine that you have power over the decisions of others? Maybe you're afraid that your source of guinea pigs will diminish. You have no right to make my decisions.
Wow the inhumanity of Canada
Yes, we are going down hill and fast!
Im a US citizen, and this is completely disgusting and disturbing. SO DISTURBING
Excellent Interview: Douglas Murray has the Sharpest Intellect and also a deeply understanding honest mind. A very important subject, which needs to be understood and spoken about more openly...and truthfully as is being done here. Douglas would be the most amazing PM !
I know of two cases of MAID. One was a terminal cancer patient. He would have lived longer with traditional treatments, but decided to end it early since he was terminal. This was in winter, and wife asked him to wait til spring so the ground would be thawed for burial. The second case was a woman in her 30’s who had mental health issues. She was a bitter, angry person, and decided to not to tell her family she was going to end her life. The doctor called her family moments after the procedure to tell them she was dead. We live in a cold society where there is little to no value in human life. As a nation we have gone from secular, to immoral, to completely degenerate.
So the doctors called after the fact.
Jesus
MAID for mental health cases does not become legal until next year. Not that I am defending it.
ever hears of India ? be grateful you were not born there
Oh no, not some Bible-Thumper telling how we should live.
And how long will it be before the choice lies not with the individual, but with the government? Soylent Green legislation.
The poor will be next.
Or the old
@@dilindsay Definitely the old. In the Netherlands even 30 years ago when I lived there, there was already such a plan for the second class elderly citizens who lived in second class old people's homes. They were given a suicide pill which they kept in their pocket, and in case they felt it was getting too hard for them all they had to do was take it. Easy as that. Considering that most people in that predicament were depressed, I expect quite a few did.
This is Canada's solution to its growing homelessness and addiction issues.
Well in Canada I'd say that's not far away.
I saw a comment on another site that went like this: a young Canadian military veteran in a wheelchair (permanent war injury) asked her healthcare provider for a stair lift. Instead she was offered euthanasia!
I honestly could listen to Douglas read the Gettysburg Address. Aside from being dead on correct, he has the most soothing voice.
A disgusting disregard for life
Which in itself is a miracle.
Sinister .
''life is a miracle'' and ''life is a gift'' are dogmas. Life is suffering. A lot of suffering, and people like u are the reason for it.
LIfe being a miracle is a joke; it's one of the worst things that could have happened.
@@neutrality8747Your soft, weak mindset and worldview is the only joke here.
Ontario liquidated an unknown number of elderly in nursing homes during covid. The military was called in for help and found people who died of dehydration. The nursing homes kicked out all the visitors.
My dad was one of them. He was given the toxic experimental clot shots against his will-they murdered him!
Dehydration just before death is actually a good thing. If fluids are administered prior to death the body does not send them where they need to go and it can actually increase suffering.
@@MaritimeFoxBut not dehydration to cause death is surely an evil act!
@@MaritimeFox Covid has a fatality rate of only 15% in those over age 80. Most of those deaths were due to neglect.
@@MaritimeFox your entirely missing the point lol
I'm Canadian and I'm horrified by this! My daughter is specialized in a field in which she cares for intellectually and physically disabled people and cannot believe that the government has actually mentioned the possibility of extending this program to those people as well. This is way out of line!!!
Give the government time I believe it’s coming as horrifying as it is. Also the elderly will be on the list they will be telling doctors to suggest MAID instead of medication
Mr Murray uses the English language in the most beautiful manner. It really is lovely to listen to. I love to listen to his intellectual arguments. What a blessing to listen to him.
How many people haven’t had a period of mental turmoil during their life, and have then gone on to live a happy fulfilled life.
Thank you Douglas for putting a spotlight on Canada. I had a neighbour/friend who "opted" for Maids. They did have a terminal illness but, at the time it was administered, he was still out and about. The problem was his son. My friend told me that it was too great a burden for the son to travel back and forth from his distant province during the last days, in other words, it was a soft coercion. The other thing was, this was administered, not in a hospital as you would expect, but in an apartment, next door to me. I was told by my friend of the date and time when it would occur. I can't stress how disturbing, horrifying, this count-down was. The son denied access to his dad in the final days, and at the subsequent funeral, asked me why I was crying. A very sad day that will live in ignominy.
Son was keeping dad apart from friends for a reason. What a rat.
Oh my God. How could a son do that to his own father?
This is terrible. It's worth noting that in some instances people have gone this way to try and relieve the burden of care on children, even when the children don't want that. It's easy for us as parents to want to protect our children - we put the pressure on ourselves. Society should not be telling us that is the right way to think.
Its likely the son was abiding with his dads choice to have his MAID experience without judgement/incursion of the ideological beliefs of neighbours that dont seem stable enough to handle it. "I can't stress how disturbing, horrifying, this count-down was" says a lot. I would keep you out of the room as well.
The son did not make the decision for his father. The individual makes the decision and it is confirmed with people close to them and medical professionals.
Why shouldn’t someone who is terminally I’ll be able to decide to end their own suffering? Dude shoulda kept living bcz it made you, his neighbor, uncomfortable??? That is deeply selfish.
I am a Canadian and I completely agree with Douglas !
I am so grateful for Douglas Murray. Such a brilliant mind and such an incredible ability to articulate what is right and what is wrong and why. No intelligent person can walk away from a discussion or debate with Douglas and not be swayed and have their eyes opened. Unfortunately, there are people who refuse to see reason or worse, have nefarious motives.
God Bless Mr. Murray.❤🙏🏼
My 43-year-old sister was diagnosed with lung cancer Jan. 2022, no appointment or treatment was offered to her until June of the same year, at which time they said there was nothing they could do for her. She passed in September 2022 without ever receiving any further form of diagnostic service, outside of the initial diagnosis based on blood work, or treatment. But, they did allow her to lay in one of their beds for a couple of days until they administered the final shot. It was horrifying.
This transpired in Hamilton, ON, Canada.
I grieve with you may she rest in peace brother
@@Frogman69.. Thank you very much! All the best to you and your loved ones.
Dear God. Just inhuman. So sorry.
So very sorry for your loss..I think animals are treated better than this in Canada….I love animals don’t get me wrong…but a human life is priceless and everything should be done to save a life not be allowed to die without any medical care…♥️ …blessings…
@@Goldencitygirl you will find that not only does the federal government doesn't agree that human life is priceless, it places its value at just around $160k. if it costs more than that to keep you alive, it's not worth it to them.
In my teens and early adulthood I was severely depressed, developed crippling social anxiety, spent more than 10 years living alone in my apartment, got kicked out of college, lost all my friends... Felt like I would never feel happy again and wanted to die so badly...now at 35 I'm back in college, working on my physics degree, have a nice job, few good friends, plenty of hobbies and am actually doing everything I can to stay healthy and fit so I can live longer and have a better quality of life. I'm so glad assisted dying wasn't an option few years ago...
❤👋
Thanks for sharing!
keep it up mate, just keep breathing, thats the cure for this sort of thing, with the way young people are these days, truckloads of young bodies are gonna have to be carted away, what a nightmarish vision of the future we're being given everyday.
Canadian government has just lowered the age limits to teenagers 😮 I think it's Great for people who's illness is debilitating not teenagers who's depressed because they can't get a girlfriend and they done it the Doctors passed the law only a few months ago and the teenager's parents made a documentary about it 😱😭😱
Congratulations on your degree and getting back on your feet. You're an inspiration
Douglas speaks truth with a voice that couldn't be more pleasant. Articulate, precise and a joy to listen to. Props to Roger Scruton for being a mentor.
thank you Douglas; keep up the good work; people need to really think hard about this.
This is not compassion. Being ill is now becoming a nuisance.
It’s a grim and heartless idea of “problem-solving” for sure. Hard to believe it can go this far and no one in the mainstream bothers to object. Scary.
it's anti-hypocratic oath
Canada is not sleepwalking anywhere - those in power know exactly what they are doing and where they are going.
I’m a 56 year old Canadian woman & I’ve never been so appalled and embarrassed by my government like I’ve been with Trudeau’s . He will go down in history as the most disliked Canadian .
🥺🥺🥺 Simply unbelievable………..And beyond SAD !
Thank you for discussing this absolutely atrocious government. Canada is also killing unvaccinated people who need organ transplants. Outright death sentences. It's a scary place here. Shocking things happening regularly. It doesn't stop.
Bullshit!
Rise up Canadians !!!!!
What? Covid is over, no one has to have vaccinations.
Yes! How despicable ! It's absolutely evil.
@@richardmacdonald8637 the truckers tried that and were arrested
WTF!!! Has the world reached another level in lack of ethical and moral boundaries. Canada? WTF
I am Canadian and am appalled that people with mental illnesses have been included in this bill. Canada no longer has a robust or even anaemic mental health care system. What was once a caring system, has been gone for at least twenty years. Psychiatrists are not trained as therapists and psychologist must be paid out of pocket or by insurance if you have it. This is why we have so many homeless people. Many have multiple co-morbidities such as addiction. So instead of rebuilding what was once a very effective system, we have decided to discard them. I am sickened by this bill.
Very disturbing. Where could it end. Shudder to think.
Bravo Douglas, absolutely right. Horror in our time.
There is no slippery slope. Severely mentally ill patients are sometimes
worse off then people in physical pain.
The laws are no evil, they are compassionate.
My cat has more rights then people here in the US.
It will not make it more difficult to treat depression in general, it will
just give a humane option for the most severe cases.
Who are we to say that a person is NOT SUFFERING ENOUGH, so they should be
excluded from this law.
People with mental illness, most times, can decide their own fate and who
are we to make that decision for them.
Giving people more choices of how to live better and how to die better is a foundation
of a civilized and compassionate society.
@@anthonyjohn4380 It's the foundation of an utterly barbaric society because open to abuse.
Are you an Ai robot ?
I’m Canadian and have known people who have been offered MAID. It’s murder and horribly wrong. It is a very sad state of affairs.
Sheer evil depopulation agenda
How is it murder exactly
I'm not a fan....but it's not murder right
You have to choose
Btw it was not supposed to be offered,those people were fired.
should the government be able to tell you your problems arent bad enough and you cant die when ur literally an adult and can probably do it anyway in a much more gruesome way.
@@jonatonputridineyou have no morals. Yes illegal taboo suicide is prefferable to government sponsored murder
It’s not murder. Be more intelligent and accurate with your language if you’re older than eight years old please.
Canada is coming full circle.?
TERRFYING!
this dude is literally a hero
I totally agree with Douglas in his views on this subject. It is absolutely appalling.
I'm 75 and had 4 major depressions since I was 19 but recovered each time. I still suffer from ordinary depression but who doesn't? In a major depression you loose all hope of getting better and can't go on the way you feel, but you can recover from it, it just takes time, so don't do anything irrational.
Good for you! But how others chose to live or die is none of your business. You're not God. You're just a person.
I cannot even listen to this.....I find this heartbreaking & so horrible. We who have loved ones that struggle mentally....
Good to shine light on this frightening dilemma
I’m a Canadian and very concerned as I hear even people with depression are offered this option! Unbelievable. It was supposed to be terminal illness! How the expansion of the laws happen is beyond me 😖
Apathy and people not caring about what happens around them until it affects them directly. I used to be like that prior to 2018-2019, but watched as the fundamentals of western societies were attacked and corrupted en-mass and many of the politicians who should have been resisting, actually lean in to it or seem asleep at the wheel. In the UK and US I think we're finally starting to wake up, but Canada, Australia and New Zealand? It's looking very dicey.
Could it be made mandatory for failed politicians?
You voted them in. Vote them out.
@@ivancho5854if voting mattered they wouldn't let us do it.
But why only terminal illness? If mental illness is so onerous and there for a lifetime - a life that is terminal - why shouldn't they be also considered?
You could not trust Mr TueDope to tell you the correct time! How on Earth Canada ever allowed him to be in charge of anything at all, is beyond my power to comprehend.
Don’t you mean TrueDope…?!
The string pullers allowed him in.
Supposedly the Canadian government is full of WEF installed puppets, to a point they nearly unanimously denied a vote mandating that elected officials membership in it must be made public, when an obvious non member proposed it. The last part I actually saw on video. Creepy af.
I don't think we've had legitimate democracy or republic representation in a long time. Candidates are pre-filtered by money and other behind the scenes forces before the public are allowed a vote to give the illusion of participation, and legacy media existed to manufacture consent and manipulate perception rather than inform. Now social media is the censorship and surveillance arm of governments who increasingly find the old systems of control don't work anymore.
The two times the public actually got something that wasn't pre-approved by the actual powers that be, everything possible was done, and is still being done, to undermine the results, thwarted the publics desired outcomes, and prevent it from happening again. I speak of course of the upset in 2016 in the USA, as well as the British publics will to not be ruled by unaccountable bureaucrats in Brussels. These two events and everything that have followed from them seem to prove beyond doubt that the folks who actually run governments, as well as those who are allowed to be in office, are 150,000% against the will of the public. Why people should think Canada is different is beyond me, especially given that Trudeau seems to be the most openly tyrannical of all.
@@lks6248 Indeed I do, alas my spell-checker and/or hasty typing conspired to blur the message. Thanks for your attention to an important detail.
@@colineastwood1357 😄
Thank you Douglas
Spot on. I’m appalled at how Canada has gone downhill in the past decade or so.
In BC, a private/public hospice that did not want to provide MAID (such a nice, innocuous sounding acronym) had to close down because the government pulled its funding due to its stand. Never mind that there was a facility next door that was happy to accept those who wished for MAID.
Now there’s a push against a public/Catholic hospital that provided compassionate palliative care before transferring the patient to another facility where MAID was accessed. The rationale is that this hospital receives public funds and therefore it should provide whatever procedure the public demands, even though many care providers do not want to commit what in their conscience amounts to murder.
Can we really afford to lose ANY medical care facilities these days? Even if they don’t provide 100% of government approved medical procedures?
It seems some people have forgotten that hospitals also depend on private donations. As it is, I have no say in the fact that some of my tax dollars pay for procedures that I morally object to.
Our right to freedom of conscience is being eroded.
Our freedom of speech is only valid if we spout whatever our liberal government says is acceptable to say.
1984, here we come…
Like the vaccine mandate pushed conservatives out of the military, this seems to be pushing conservatives out of medicine.
A society that can sanction murdering babies will sanction murdering anyone.
Canada and European nations are doing Hitler one better.
Sad and horrific.
Follow the money. When that doesn't work, follow the money deeper.
Federalism was designed to combat centralized power. Read up on the fall of Athens and even more so on the fall of Rome. It won't stop the power-hungry, but at least we will see what is happening and what is coming.
It seems that Canada has turned into a cross between "1984" and "Brave New World".
And if you're not v a x Ed n Canada you no longer have healthcare...
No organs for you, no transplants...
But as you lay dying in hospital they will ask for your organs
I saw an interview a while back about this. A person in Canada had become ill, lost their job, was on benefits and struggling financially and emotionally. Their case worker suggested they look into euthanasia and they weren't the only one's this happened to. Douglas is 100% right and Canada has become a social and political hell scape showing what could happen to us. I can't believe our gov hasn't said anything.
Doctors, psychiatrists and others will start promoting this as they’ll get a commission. The government will promote it to the poor and elderly to save on long term care costs. Maybe they will even offer post birth “abortions” to “birthing people”
Post birth abortions with no age limit 🤣
I saw that too.
I saw that too. Also a veteran who needed a lift to get up her stairs was offered MAID as a preferred option. One mother took her daughter to the hospital, she had cystic fibrosis and the doctor (in front of the child) asked the mother if she’d considered MAID! Disgusting!
The doctors are definitely getting a kickback or some kind of financial incentive.
As a Romanian Orthodox Christian I like the fact you have icons on the wall behind you.
May God guide you!!
Douglas Murray is simply very on poin in his comments. This is a sad thing that is happening.
The Canadian Government is using euthanasia as an answer to the growing crises in its health care system. Killing people saves money giving treatment costs. Also, the option of euthanasia in Canada has severely eroded the respect for life. The case of my elderly mother is a very good example. Two years ago she had a very serious infection in her leg that would not heal. Fortunately, she ended up in emergency because of a bladder infection and an emergency doctor saw her leg and informed our family that if her leg was not amputated she would probably be dead in two weeks. She accepted to have her leg amputated. When my brother took her back to the nursing home where she lives he met with the home’s doctor who proceeded to deride him for having the operation. My mother has now enjoyed two more years with her children and grandchildren and great grandchildren. We are so grateful to that emergency room doctor.
should the government be able to tell you your problems arent bad enough and you cant die when ur literally an adult and can probably do it anyway in a much more gruesome way. if she had cancer you would almost understand but mental health isnt taken as serious.
Douglas is always such a pleasure to listen to. An articulate and extremely intelligent man. This subject is quite shocking. I can understand people who have debilitating, painful terminal illnesses wishing to have the right to terminate their lives. However, it is extremely frightening to think that euthenasia could be freely offered to those who could thrive with the right mental health treatment. A very slippery slope indeed in my opinion.
Terrifying
I've found that a large part of "the right mental health treatment" can often be simply telling the affected person something they had not heard or considered before. To think that that's how you can take some people away from total desperation, and they're're offering just dying instead.
The government is not killing citizens. Phrasing it like that doesn't change it. Countries where euthanasia is legal in the right circumstance are making it legal for nurses and doctors to aid a citizen in taking his or her own life - after months of research and an opinion asked by multiple experts, to create a context where people can end their life - which was only suffering, either mentally or physically - as peaceful as possible, with the assistance of a medical professional.
I'm quite disappointed in Murray's extremely one side and over simplified take on this. It's like saying to people who are clinical depressed "Just be happy again". He drops a couple of crowd pleasing examples, like the veteran or people pushing their family member for inheritance money - as if that is the most frequent case. Implying that everyone goes straight to euthanasia, as if there was no process of years of attempts of medication and treatment by multiple people before making the ultimate decision - in most cases a choice that would be attempted anyway by the individual, without help and with possible failure and harm to them or others. Does this mean that there won't be cases where there have been made mistakes? Of course not. As with everything. But euthanasia is always a case by case concept. The majority of people are extremely relieved when they can end their suffering. And the occasional protest from relatives are mostly selfish reasons, which are understandable, but irrelevant because it's the choice of the individual. A choice not easily made. As always, another concept that is being politized.
and the younger they are the more likely they are to COERCE THEM into ORGAN DONATION. Hmmmm....very CHYNALIKE.
One day, they won't even ask. They'll just do it.
It started with saying it's ok to kill a baby in the womb. The next evil step was "death with dignity" for the terminally ill and now it's moving outward to death for the mentally ill. It will keep expanding. 🥺
Life should be valued from the womb to the tomb.
It’s gotten to a point in Canada where many funeral homes have a Maid room where family members can be there with you to say they’re good byes before you get euthanized. The funeral-homes say they provide you with an a lot more cozy room than at the hospital and it saves them from having to go pick up your body. It’s a one stop shop can you believe it. 😢
Sounds logical
Sounds dystopian
🤢
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
They are trying to get rid of people that they consider vulgar.
Douglas Murray is an absolute master at his craft, he is the epitome of intelligence.
Over doing it a bit.
He’s just describing the issue.
It doesn’t take exceptional intelligence to state the obvious - just courage in today’s world.
@@pippipster6767 But his articulation is masterful.
@@Johnny-rj6ou
So-so … not on the level of Scruton or Hitch.
Always articulate and I totally agree with his argument.
You'd have loved Adolf then
@@guff9567 No idea what you think you are talking about, had too much falling down water today ? I don't agree with assisted dying for the reasons he has articulated how on earth does that equate to being a fascist in your strange world ?
@@johnhaynes9910 Yep. A fascist
Well then, go ahead and suffer unbearable pain for Christ's sake, but don't take away my right to control my own body and life.
@@robwells230You've deliberately and cynically closed your mind to Murrays nuanced analysis.
My daughter has borderline personality disorder and came across this Canadian law for a right to be euthanasied got her attention for all the wrong reasons.
Justin Trudeau has been a nightmare since the day he was elected - and yet we cannot seem to get rid of him!!
Um, vote him out ?
I doubt he is being elected fairly. Do they use Dominion voting machines in Canada?
I have direct experience of how hospital patients here in Montreal are being “persuaded” to accept MAID. Even those with a very short time to live are being pressurized into departing this life earlier through direct euthanasia. Family members are excluded from “interfering”, the doctors citing the patient’s “autonomy” as the supreme value, overriding any familial bonds or ties. Thankfully those whom I know who were offered MAID resisted, one telling the doctor, “I’m a Catholic, I don’t believe in euthanasia, I will die in God’s time”. Britain beware.
I know for a fact in Montreal that advances in pain relief are being horned out as pressure builds in favor of assisted suicide. This would be incomprehensible were it not for the reality of evil.
Horrible evil
"I have direct experience of how hospital patients here in Montreal are being “persuaded” to accept MAID"
Do you have any evidence to support your claim?
@@bradpaul8576 So you have anecdotes.
@@cnault3244why do you defend evil?
Good to see there are still some good people who think out there