Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
One of the goals of the euthanasia lobby is to force all Canadian medical institutions to provide (MAiD) euthanasia.
On June 17, 2024; Dying with Dignity and the family of Sam O'Neill, who requested euthanasia at St Paul's Hospital in Vancouver but transferred to another facility to die by euthanasia, launched a Charter Challenge claiming that O'Neill's rights were infringed when she was transferred from St. Paul's Hospital to another facility for euthanasia.
Susan Lazaruk reported for the Vancouver Sun on January 12 that:
Her parents, Gaye and Jim O’Neill, are among the plaintiffs suing Providence, the province and Vancouver Coastal Health Authority on constitutional grounds, citing Section 7, which guarantees the life, liberty and security of a person, and Section 2, which protects freedom of conscience and religion, including none.The British Columbia government defended it's agreement with Providence Health. Lazaruk reported:
The plaintiffs argue the Catholic institution should not have the right to deny a legal procedure in a building partly funded by taxpayer dollars.
The province’s lawyer, Alison Brown, said in her opening argument the province will show the medical transfers of those requesting assisted dying are routine and the hospital doesn’t deny patients who request it the chance to access it outside of the hospital.I reported on June 27, 2023 that the euthanasia lobby was using the story of Samantha O'Neill (34), who died on April 4 by euthanasia (MAiD) after being transferred from St Paul's hospital in Vancouver to St. John’s Hospice.
Brown said the plaintiffs’ position is that moving a patient for MAID, even to a room next door in the same hospital, is “still constitutionally impermissible.” But she argued that can’t be accommodated in Canada’s health care system and “it’s not what the Constitution compels.”
“There’s no positive and specific entitlement under the Constitution to access a health-care service in a specific room,” she said.
Katie DeRosa reported for The Vancouver Sun on June 23 that Dying With Dignity and O'Neill's family initiated a campaign to pressure the BC government to force Catholic hospitals to kill their patients by euthanasia. DeRosa reported:
O’Neill’s family and Dying with Dignity Canada say it’s unacceptable that a taxpayer-funded hospital like St. Paul’s — which is getting a $2 billion replacement in 2027 — forces dying patients to leave its facility to get MAID.
Dying with Dignity’s CEO Helen Long told DeRosa:
such policies will remain in place unless there’s a successful court challenge.
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On May 30, 2025 while on a speaking tour in British Columbia, I visited the Shoreline Space euthanasia killing centre that is attached to St. Paul's Hospital (Providence Health) in Vancouver.
It is not enough for the euthanasia lobby group that the BC government built a killing centre (green shed) that connects to St. Paul's hospital.
It is the goal of the euthanasia lobby to force every medical institution to provide (MAiD) euthanasia in Canada.
This case will decide whether or not religiously affiliated healthcare institutions can continue to exist in Canada.
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From Wikipedia: "The Catholic Church is the largest non-government provider of health care services in the world.[1] It has around 18,000 clinics, 16,000 homes for the elderly and those with special needs, and 5,500 hospitals, with 65 percent of them located in developing countries." What will happen if the Church pulls away from providing these services, should the O'Neil's win? Very much worth following this case.
All people who agree that euthanasia is the deliberate killing of a human being should be praying constantly for a decision in this case that will allow them to die in a health facility that does not offer this kind of death to a vulnerable person in the care.
Sam O'Niell's rights were not violated , that is if MAiD can be construed as not violating Life, Liberty and Security of the Person. What is her family's beef with St Paul's, substantively? Looks to me like they're pro choice advocates not content to let people be, Catholics in particular.
Here's a chance for a radical judge to violate the Constitution again, reducing it yet further to the terminal stage which is its destiny.
This case must be won (of course). And after that, we must fight to remove the religious requirement. Delta lost their building because they are not a specifically religious institution. That is wrong.
It is not anything like a majority of non-religious persons who truly wish to see Canadian healthcare transition to a veterinary cost-based death-management system. And certainly not as this transition becomes more obvious.
It is an observable fact that most people, in all disease categories will refuse euthanasia.
It is my belief, that as the predatory system gains steam, more and more of these will realize that their interest is in having access to euthanasia-free care.
In the end, Canadian healthcare has to give citizens what they want.
Bottom line: this battle is going to deepen and evolve over time. It has begun in the context of religious institutions, but it will not remain limited to these. Because of the numerical superiority of those who wish to avoid euthanasia, our position is destined to grow in power as we go along.
We may therefore confidently prepare for the long term.
IS THIS FOR REAL??? The Family Of Sam O'Neill Really Launching A Charter Challenge Claiming That O'Neill's Rights Were Infringed When She Was Transferred From St. Paul's Hospital To Another Facility For Euthanasia---This Does Not Even Seem Real??? IT IS CRAZY!!! SO THE FAMILY SUES The Province & Vancouver Coastal Health Authority On Constitutional Grounds, Citing Section 7, Which Guarantees The Life, Liberty And Security Of A Person, And Section 2, Which Protects Freedom Of Conscience And Religion, Including None; And The O'Neill Family And Dying With Dignity Canada Say It’s Unacceptable That Taxpayer-Funded Hospitals Force Dying Patients To Leave Its Facility To Get MAID---THIS MAKES NO SENSE WHATSOEVER, AS KILLING IS NOT LIFE AND SECURITY, NOR IS IT LIBERTY EITHER, AND IS HYPOCRITICAL TO FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE BECAUSE KILLING IS WRONG AND WHY WOULD THEY SUE TO FORCE THAT ON TO OTHERS WHO CONSCIENCLY OBJECT (FOR EVERY RIGHT REASON) AND TO TRY TO GET MONEY FOR THAT??? THAT IS ABSURD AND ALSO WHY WOULD ANYONE WASTE THEIR MONEY ON LAWYERS FOR THE PURPOSE OF BEING KILLED!!! IT ALL SOUNDS VERY STRANGE AND WEIRD AND CRAZY!!! I REALLY HOPE SOMETHING LIKE THIS CAN BE THROWN OUT SO THAT A JUDGE DOES NOT NEED TO WASTE THEIR TIME WITH THIS NONSENSE AND EVIL BECAUSE THEY SHOULD NOT AND NOBODY SHOULD!!!
I hope you are right. Most of us don't want to be 'put to sleep' in the new 'veterinary' medical system.
Maybe if you have more capital letters and use cheap appeals to emotion the will listen lol!
Dear Disgusted Canadian. Try to use regular type not capitals. I am not editing your material but the other readers are bothered by your constant use of capital letters.
Never did I dream that a hospital could be sued for not killing a patient.
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