How SickKids Toronto and Parliament Aligned on “Mature Minors"

This article was published by Kelsi Sheren on her substack on January 29, 2026.

How is Canada moving toward Assisted Dying for children.

By Kelsi Sheren

Canada is approaching a line it has spent years insisting does not exist, you know the one so many of us have been warning about.

CHILDREN may be NEXT.

In February 2023, the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying (AMAD) tabled a report in the House of Commons recommending a further expansion of MAID eligibility. Buried among its many recommendations is one that fundamentally alters the relationship between children, parents, and the state. That alone should concern every parent in this country.

The report recommends that MAID be made available to “mature minors.”

More terrifying was how parental involvement is treated. What the parliamentary report actually recommends is very uncomfortable. 19 of the AMAD report states:

“That the Government of Canada establish a requirement that, where appropriate, the parents or guardians of a mature minor be consulted in the course of the assessment process for MAID, but that the will of a minor who is found to have the requisite decision-making capacity ultimately take priority.”

This is not ambiguous language. Remember when they said children should cut their breast off at 12? The only difference here is that, MAID (murder and poisoning by your dr—IS PERMANENT)

Parents or guardians “may or may not be consulted”, depending on what assessors determine is “appropriate.” Even if consulted, their consent is not required. If a minor is deemed to have decision-making capacity, their will takes precedence.

In other words, under the framework Parliament is considering, a child could be euthanized without parental consent.

This is not speculation. It is policy design, and this liberal government is quite alright with killing your children no matter what you do or say.

This idea didn’t start by the current corrupt government, it was pushed by the mentally ill people in the pro death cults of the country. To understand how Canada arrived here, it helps to look back a bit.

In 2018, ethicists at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) published a draft policy on MAID for mature minors in the Journal of Medical Ethics. That policy laid the philosophical groundwork now reflected in the AMAD report.

The SickKids Children’s Hospital working group argued that there is no meaningful ethical distinction between assisted dying and other end-of-life medical decisions already available to minors.

As journalist Sharon Kirkey reported at the time:

“The working group said it wasn’t convinced that there is a meaningful difference for the patient ‘between being consensually assisted in dying (in the case of MAID) and being consensually allowed to die (in the case of refusing life-sustaining interventions).’”

That equivalence is hyper critical here.

If withdrawing treatment and actively administering a lethal injection are ethically the same, then the same consent standards apply and in much of Canada, mature minors already have the legal authority to refuse treatment.

Most Canadian provinces allow minors deemed capable to make their own medical decisions, including refusing life-sustaining treatment.

In Ontario, for example, a minor may consent to or refuse treatment if they understand the “reasonably foreseeable consequences” of that decision. There is no fixed age threshold.

SickKids’ draft policy applied that same logic to MAID.

Sharon Kirkey explained that the hospital’s ethicists concluded:

“There is no meaningful ethical or practical distinction from the patient’s perspective between assisted dying and other procedures that result in the end of a life, such as palliative sedation or withdrawing or withholding life-sustaining treatments.”

Once that premise is accepted, the conclusion follows almost automatically.

A child deemed competent to make medical decisions is also deemed competent to decide to die with or without parental consent.

A permanent decision made in their weakest moments with adults there pushing the narrative.

The AMAD report does not explicitly state that parents should be excluded. Instead, it reframes parental involvement as conditional and secondary to the assessed will of the child.

This is a profound shift.

Parental consent is no longer foundational. It is optional. Consultation replaces authority. As a parent, that notion is simple terrifying.

The report attempts to reassure readers by emphasizing safeguards, capacity assessments, and professional judgment. But the underlying principle is clear: the state is positioning itself as the final arbiter, not the family.

This is the same pattern Canada keeps repeating and never learning from. Canada has been told before that each expansion of MAID would be rare, limited, and carefully contained.

That was said when MAID was limited to terminal illness. It was said again when eligibility expanded beyond end-of-life. It was said again when mental illness entered the discussion.

Each time, the goal post continues to move. Dr’s and this government just can’t seem to get enough of killing their own people.

Now the same logic is being applied to children.

The AMAD report also supports euthanasia based on advance requests — meaning individuals who are no longer competent could be euthanized based on a prior directive. Taken together, the direction is unmistakable.

Consent, once the cornerstone of assisted dying, is becoming conditional. Capacity is redefined. Age is minimized. Parental authority is downgraded.

This debate is often framed as compassion versus cruelty, or autonomy versus paternalism.

People in this country continue to move away from the real, hard questions. Whether it’s because their too weak or whether it’s because they don’t genuinely care about how we care for our children. What does it mean when a society who is supposed to have the best socialized healthcare in the globe starts killing it’s kids.

I’ll tell you, this is a sign of a Godless country, killing it’s next generation just like the Nazi’s did. This is Eugenics all over again, framed as compassion and care. Anyone with two eyes can see that.

Every expansion of MAID has been justified as an exception. But exceptions accumulate and each new door opened makes the next one easier to justify.

Canada is no longer debating whether child euthanasia is conceivable.

It is debating how to implement it and kill more children.

KELSI SHEREN

Source: https://www.parl.ca/documentviewer/en/44-1/AMAD/report-2/page-5

Sick Kids Hospital Toronto will euthanize children with or without parental consent (Link).