"Justice" Minister David Lametti is putting the brakes on the expansion of his government's assisted suicide program, known under the euphemism of the Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD). Sounds almost innocuous doesn't it?Why are Trudeau and Lametti apparently losing their enthusiasm for a program that is fast becoming legalized euthanasia after they announced it would be offered to the mentally ill starting in March 2023? Because too many people are finding out that this program — behind all the clever descriptions, cloying promises and outright lies — is not just dangerous, but a crazy rip-off of Nazi policies from the 1930s.Adolf Hitler's euthanasia program, by the way, is the only murderous policy that was dropped by the Nazis because of public opinion. You might think such a thing didn't exist in Nazi Germany but there was tremendous pushback from families affected by the program and by prominent Catholic and Protestant clergy. Makes you wonder if the Holocaust could have been arrested as well if enough people had cared for the well-being of the Jews.Lametti claimed his new-found prudence was motivated by a respect for public opinion. Yeah — the kind that can help you lose elections.."We have heard concerns of Canadians and experts about whether the health-care system will be ready to accommodate MAiD requests for persons whose sole medical condition is a mental illness," said Lametti on Thursday. "This is a very complex question. We want to be prudent, we want to move in a step–by-step way so that we don't make mistakes." .It was Lametti who made a whopper of a mistake by calling the program exactly what it was during an interview with the Toronto Star, that confirmed our worst fears the Liberals are celebrating a culture of death. It shocked even the woke progressives at the crimson-red Liberal Star.“Remember that suicide generally is available to people. This is a group within the population who, for physical reasons and possibly mental reasons, can’t make that choice themselves to do it themselves. And ultimately, this provides a more humane way for them to make a decision they otherwise could have made if they were able in some other way.”.Could it be any clearer, even from a malignant politician like Lametti? If you aren’t capable of deciding to die, then the state will do it for you. That’s euthanasia in the worst tradition of Nazi Germany. It hasn't helped that the MAiD program has been the subject of much news coverage in the United States, where conservative news — a rare but growing phenomenon in Canada — has eviscerated the Trudeau regime for taking Canada on the road to euthanasia and wondering if it might not happen in their country too. Just this week, Canadian journalist Sheila Gunn Reid was on Fox News' The Ingraham Angle with host Laura Ingraham to discuss the issue. Reid offered "a dire warning to our American friends," saying if Americans aren't careful, woke idiots there might try to import more of Trudeau's insane policies. During the interview, Ingraham, who was clearly very aware of the policy, talked about how Les Landry, a Canadian homeless man, is seeking assisted suicide because of his economic conditions and he is well on his way to obtaining approval.Then there are those wounded warriors about whom my colleague Linda Slobodian wrote recently, that Veterans Affairs suggested could just end their lives rather than endure the pain.What a heartless bunch of woke dolts."Where are all the mental health advocates?" Ingraham asked during her interview with Reid.Well, they're certainly not in the Liberal government, but when Canadian journalists are on Fox News — the top rated cable network in the U.S. — you have to start to worry that the jig might be up.Don't think for a minute — not a nanosecond — that Trudeau or Lametti are concerned about the welfare of Canadians with this decision. It's all public relations and they clearly fear they are currently standing on the wrong side of the issue. It may be too early to go this far with the program, but they are prepared to wait and Lametti will do his best to keep his big mouth shut and the from allowing morally vacant and politically stupid words to be formed inside that mouth.The Trudeau Government is creating a culture of death that is fast defining liberal values in this country. It’s called the Medical Assistance in Dying Act (MAID) and in March it could have been applied to the mentally ill and minors. It still might, one day.
