Ethical Crisis

Ethical Crisis

MAiD Breaking Ethical Codes and Government Laws

Since the COVID-19 lockdowns and mandates, there has been a disturbing escalation in Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in Canada. What happened to the Hippocratic Oath doctors once promised to uphold? What happened to Canada’s firm stance against capital punishment, even for prisoners?

Recently, in Canada, Dr. Ellen Wiebe of British Columbia signed off as the second physician for a young man in Ontario to be euthanized under MAiD. Was this young man terminally ill? No. He was 26 years old, living with type 2 diabetes and experiencing bouts of depression.

To help Canadians understand what “Do No Harm” and “Informed Consent” truly mean, it is important to break these concepts down clearly.

Killing a patient is harm, especially when that patient is not terminally ill.
Informed consent means a patient is fully informed of all available options. Telling a vulnerable young man that dying by MAiD is a “good choice,” while failing to emphasize alternatives such as psychiatric therapy, counseling, and appropriate medications, is not informed consent. That is coercion. In other words, the physician persuaded the patient toward what the physician wanted, not what the patient needed.

In Canada, murderers, rapists, and pedophiles are not executed. The last prison hanging occurred on December 11, 1962. While Canadians may face capital punishment abroad, Canada itself rejects it. Yet from 2017 to 2025, there have been at least 49 MAiD requests involving prisoners, with reports failing to specify whether lethal drugs were self-administered. Indigenous leaders are now investigating these allegations.

When MAiD was first legalized in 2016 following a Supreme Court decision, it was restricted to competent adults facing a grievous and irremediable terminal illness. Within months, pressure mounted to expand eligibility. Since then, over 93,000 people have died through MAiD. Suicide numbers in 2025 are projected to approach 17,500. Based on current projection MAiD deaths have increased from just over 1,000 in 2016 to more than 16,000 in 2024.

96% of the MAiD deaths were performed on Caucasian/White Canadians. Totaling 89,280

As a proportion of all deaths, MAiD has grown to about 5 % in 2024.

If the number of MAiD deaths continues at recent levels—approximately 16,000–17,000 per year—a simple straight-line projection (not an official forecast) suggests roughly 320,000–340,000 total MAiD deaths between 2027 and 2047. Other sources have estimated figures as high as 14 million over the same period.

Doctors and nurses must recognize that this growing trend is eroding the very principles of their Hippocratic Oath. As MAiD deaths rise, healthcare professionals face a moral and ethical crisis, where the commitment to “do no harm” is being steadily undermined. Ignoring this reality risks allowing the sanctity of life—and the integrity of the medical profession—to deteriorate further.

In 2015, during the debate over euthanasia, I warned that it would open a Pandora’s box we would never be able to close. Today, that box is wide open, and the consequences are accelerating with no clear limits or end in sight.

This must stop.

Canada urgently needs stronger guardrails around MAiD to protect vulnerable populations—especially those struggling with disability, mental illness, or financial distress. Financial hardship must never be grounds for assisted death. We also cannot continue discussing MAiD eligibility for children as young as 0 to 2 years old. This is not “Do No Harm.” This is not informed consent.

To the world watching, Canada now appears willing to end lives as a cost-saving solution within a failing publicly funded medical system. This is chaotic and deeply troubling.

Canada is in danger. Canadians need to wake up.

Dismissing a parent’s grief and outrage over losing their 26-year-old son to MAiD on social media is not compassionate; it is un-Canadian and cruel. The young man in Ontario was, in my view, blatantly killed by an overzealous doctor obsessed with death. This is not medical care. It is a morally bankrupt medical system that has violated the Hippocratic Oath and a government that is breaking its own laws.

What happened to Canadians looking after their neighbours? What happened to loving one another?

This is not the Canada I know.

My question to all Canadians is this: When are we going to start demanding that our politicians and governments pause this chaos and protect life? We are better than this. We are Canadians. Were strong and free and we want God to bless our land.

Warmly your friend,

Bill Vassilopoulos