Canada surpassed 100,000 euthanasia deaths since legalization.

Canada needs to completely review it's euthanasia killing law.

Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director,
Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

In April 2026, Canada surpassed 100,000 reported euthanasia deaths since legalization in June 2016. Canada doesn't need to further expand euthanasia to people who are mentally ill but rather Canada needs to completely review its euthanasia killing program.

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I have published more than one thousands articles on Canada's euthanasia law, a law that lacks effective oversight, a law that employs vague terminology, and a law that provides complete legal protection for doctors and nurse practitioners who are willing to kill people, even in cases that are completely egregious.

On May 5, I presented to the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying, which is the parliamentary committee examining the extension of euthanasia to mental illness alone in Canada.

Think about that - Euthanasia for the sole underlying condition of a mental illness.

My presentation to the Committee focused on the need to provide a complete review of Canada's euthanasia law, which Bill C-14, the original bill that legalized euthanasia in Canada, required. I stated:

Rather than extending assisted dying to persons whose sole underlying condition is a mental disorder, Parliament needs to examine how Canada’s assisted dying law is functioning. How has the law been implemented? Is it achieving its intended outcomes? Are there abuses of the law based on its original intention? Does the law require amendment? These questions have never been addressed.

I then spoke about several egregious Canadian euthanasia stories and explained:

More broadly, Canada’s assisted dying law is vague. While Health Canada provides guidance, the legal framework allows for wide interpretation and it lacks effective oversight.

Because of time constraints, I will highlight one key issue.

Sections 241 (3) and 241 (3.1) of Canada's Criminal Code states that medical practitioners or nurse practitioners are required only to be “of the opinion” that the eligibility criteria are met. That, in practice, makes accountability extremely difficult, even impossible to prosecute a medical or nurse practitioner in Canada, even when the MAiD death is clearly wrong or deeply disturbing.

Yes. Canada's euthanasia law allows doctors and nurse practitioners to poison someone to death, and they are only required to be "of the opinion" that the person they killed fits the criteria of the law. Total protection for the killers.

Recently we learned of two disturbing euthanasia approvals and deaths by Dr James MacLean. As bad as it is that MacLean approved a euthanasia death while sipping Tim Horton's coffee (probably not good news for Tim Horton's) MacLean also developed an inappropriate relationship with his prey by continuously texting him and then driving him to his place of death.

Further to that MacLean poisoned to death another man in a disturbing manner, (not to say that euthanasia in general is not disturbing). According to the report:

The second complaint involved a cancer patient at end of life. The man had signed a “waiver of final consent” that allows people whose natural death is reasonably foreseeable to receive MAID, even if they lose capacity to give consent the moment before death.

Before the chosen date, the man lost capacity and was unresponsive. MacLean was called to the home.

He’d ordered a MAID medication kit, but it wasn’t ready when he arrived at the pharmacy. He went to the home with a kit he already had.

He brought a killing kit with him that he already had. Was it left-over from a previous killing???

The report continued:

According to the college, MacLean administered a sedative follow by propofol, a drug used during surgery that, in high doses, puts people in a coma.

The final drug customarily used paralyzes the muscles. Deprived of oxygen, organs shut down, one by one, until the heart finally stops.

But MacLean was unable to find the neuromuscular-blocking drug in his kit.

Shortly after administering the propofol, and unable to hear a heartbeat, MacLean pronounced the patient dead, according to the college. After he left the house, “the patient resumed spontaneous breathing.”

So MacLean poisoned an incompetent man. He declared the man dead, when he wasn't dead. He left the scene of the killing. He was told that the victim wasn't dead so MacLean returned, saw signs of cardiac and respiratory activity, administered more medication (poison) along with the paralyzing agent, “and again pronounced the patient’s death.”

You can't make this stuff up.

Dr Ramona Coelho, a family physician in London Ontario and a past member of the Ontario MAiD Death Review Committee (MDRC) was shocked that Dr MacLean only received a slap on the wrist for his killings. 

Dr Ramona Coelho

Coelho offered a way forward in an article that was published in the Hill Times. Coelho writes:

As Canada seemingly moves to halt medical assistance in dying for mental illness as a sole underlying condition, parliamentarians are beginning to recognize what clinicians and experts have warned for years: the system is not safe enough, and there is insufficient evidence to continue with Canada’s expansive MAID practice.

Halting MAID for mental illness is not enough.

Coelho provides some examples of egregious euthanasia killings. She writes:

In MDRC cases, eligibility determinations were shaped by treatment refusal, system gaps, and inadequate supports. In one case, an obese woman with depression and long-standing disengagement from care was deemed eligible for MAID after refusing interventions documented to potentially improve or reverse her conditions.

Another case involved a man in his late 40s who experienced significant suffering and unexplained functional decline following COVID vaccination. He had a history of depression and trauma, and experienced suicidal ideation requiring involuntary hospitalization. Psychiatric assessments raised concerns about mood disorder, trauma-related illness, and somatic symptom disorder. Despite this, he was deemed eligible for MAID, with assessors attributing his condition to a post-vaccine syndrome. Significantly, no pathological findings were identified on post-mortem examination.

Parliamentary hearings exposed a deeper problem: Canada already lacks adequate MAID safeguards and oversight.

In April 2026, Canada surpassed 100,000 euthanasia deaths since legalization. The bill that originally legalized euthanasia required that a review of the law be done, starting in June 2020. Instead, Canada expanded the law by passing Bill C-7 in March 2021. 

Bill C-7 expanded Canada's law by removing the requirement that a person have a terminal condition (natural death be reasonably foreseeable), it removed the 10-day waiting period for killing, it permitted the killer to waive final consent, if the person was incompetent, and it allowed euthanasia for mental illness alone, that is currently scheduled to begin on March 17, 2027.

After passing Bill C-7 Canada established the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying that did not review the law, as required by Bill C-14, but rather it examined further expansions of the law.

Canada's euthanasia law has gone mad. The world sees it, the United National Committee on Disability rights sees it, anybody who examines our law, from outside of the pro-death bubble sees it. 

The Canadian government must stop expanding the euthanasia law and examine the insanity. 

Canada needs a complete review of it's euthanasia law.