Euthanasia doctors refuse to share the killing curriculum with Canada's parliament

Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

On May 5, 2026 I had the opportunity to speak before the Parliamentary MAiD Committee that is examining the expansion of Canada's euthanasia law to include people with the sole criteria of mental illness. Presenters are only given 5 minutes, so I presented on the need for Canada's parliament to do a full review of the euthanasia law.

The Parliamentary Committee is examining and making recommendations as to whether or not Canada should permit euthanasia for mental illness alone beginning on March 17, 2027. Prime Minister Carney has stated that he will institute the recommendations of this report.

Meagan Gillmore published an article for Canadian Affairs on June 4, 2026 concerning the fact that (CAMAP) the Canadian Association of MAiD Assessors and Providers have refused to share the euthanasia training curriculum with the parliamentary committee. 

Gillmore explained that on April 14, the Parliamentary Committee agreed to ask CAMAP to share it's euthanasia training curriculum but CAMAP has not only not shared it's killing curriculum with the Parliamentary Committee, it has indicated that it will not share the curriculum.

Remember, CAMAP has been receiving more than 3 million dollars per year from the federal government to develop it's killing curriculum. Based on this reality, one would think that the federal government, in some way, actually owns the killing curriculum.

Gillmore reports why CAMAP has said no to providing the curriculum:

The module about MAID and mental disorders is a live online class, making it impossible to provide the committee with a copy of the curriculum, the association told Canadian Affairs in an email. 

CAMAP does not intend to make its curriculum public, the association also said.

“CAMAP recognizes that there is significant public interest and ongoing discussion regarding MAID and mental disorders,” CAMAP’s email says. 

“However, the purpose of the curriculum is not public advocacy or public education; rather, it exists to support health-care professionals in understanding and applying the existing legislative and clinical framework within their practice.”

This is a ridiculous response. The euthanasia for mental disorders module is only done online, so why can't they share a recording of this online class?

Why can't the Parliamentary Committee receive the guidelines for how CAMAP is supporting health-care professionals in killing people within the framework of their practice?

So what is CAMAP trying to hide?

There has also been significant criticism of the killing curriculum. Catherine Frazee, a disability leader and academic, who was part of the CAMAP curriculum team, resigned, along with two other members, based on serious problems with the killing curriculum. Gillmore reports:

Three resigned from a working group that developed a curriculum module to assess how vulnerability can impact MAID requests. In interviews with Canadian Affairs, they raised concerns that the curriculum ignored how homelessness and loneliness could impact a person’s MAID request. They also expressed concern that the MAID curriculum discouraged health-care providers from challenging patients’ negative views about their disability. 

The curriculum “presumes that disabled people’s lives are not just harder, but plausibly unlivable,” Catherine Frazee, an academic who resigned from the working group, wrote in an article published in an academic journal in April.

Gillmore stated that CAMAP shared the outline of topics but not the curriculum from each of the 8 killing training sessions. 

So why can't CAMAP share the curriculum with a Parliamentary Committee?

What does CAMAP have to hide?

How much money did the federal government give CAMAP to develop a killing curriculum?

Just to put the icing on the killers cake, last month Gillmore wrote about the CAMAP curriculum team members who had resigned, for an article that was published by Canadian Affairs on May 5, 2026. Gillmore reported Catherine Frazee outlining a few concerning cases:

In one case, a homeless, 19-year-old man with cerebral palsy who was fleeing an abusive home was approved. In another case, a young man with disabilities was approved after expressing fear that he would never have a family of his own.

Catherine Frazee

Gillmore explains why Frazee is concerned with the outcome of Canada's euthanasia law.

 Most assessors did not appear bothered by these cases, says Frazee. 

“It was that lack of hesitation or doubt that really troubled me,” said Frazee.

The curriculum included a fictitious scenario about a mother of young children who was recently paralyzed because of a spinal cord injury. The woman said she wanted MAID because she did not want someone to help her use the bathroom. 

The working group said that the woman’s distress over needing help from others was a personal value and should not be questioned, Frazee said.

Frazee was concerned that there was no discussion about challenging a patient’s negative attitudes about living with a disability. 

Frazee resigned from the CAMAP curriculum team in August 2023 when her suggestions for change were simply denied.

CAMAP’s killing curriculum, that they have refused to share with a Parliamentary Committee, is funded by Health Canada and accredited by the College of Family Physicians of Canada, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the Canadian Nurses Association.

The Canadian government needs to do a complete review of it's euthanasia law. Canada's euthanasia law is dangerous and insane.