Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
The findings are bolstering calls for stronger independent oversight of the countries assisted death regime.
Previous article: Canada euthanasia report shows massive problems with reporting errors. (Read).
Kirkey outlines the data in the report:
There were likely many more serious deviations in the law based on Canada's euthanasia reporting system which enables deviations to be covered up. Canada employs a self reporting system, whereby the medical professional who approves the death often is the same medical professional who kills the person and the medical professional who kills the person is the same medical professional who reports the death.
In 2024, 4,169 people sought MAID in B.C.Kirkey explains that:
Half those cases — 51.9 per cent — required follow-up by the oversight unit, “with a total of 2,807 errors across those cases,” according to the report.
A sizeable proportion of those errors — 12.5 percent, or 353 cases — required “education to practitioners and pharmacists” over concerns about compliance with legal requirements and professional standards.
Most follow-up was due to clerical errors, like missing information, or missing pages from provincial forms, information classified as “non-critical” but reportable.Kirkey reports that the Ministry of Health stated that they refer the most serious deviations in the law to regulatory colleges and/or referrals to law enforcement, but the Ministry of Health also stated that:
it couldn’t disclose how many cases have been referred to police or licensing colleges, citing provincial privacy laws. Any information about the outcomes of any referrals would need to be directed to the colleges and law enforcement, it added.The Ministry of Health then claimed that serious deviations in the law only accounted for .2% of the euthanasia deaths. This is the same Ministry of Health that didn't release the information publicly and only released it after a Freedom of Information request.
There were likely many more serious deviations in the law based on Canada's euthanasia reporting system which enables deviations to be covered up. Canada employs a self reporting system, whereby the medical professional who approves the death often is the same medical professional who kills the person and the medical professional who kills the person is the same medical professional who reports the death.
Even then, there were 17,304 BC euthanasia deaths by the end of 2024. If only .02% were serious deviations in the law that would mean that minimally there were 34 deaths that seriously deviated from the law and dead people don't complain.
Kirkey continued by stating that the law requires independent oversight. She stated:
Kirkey also stated that Dr. John Maher, who specializes in treating severe mental illness, told Canada's parliamentary euthanasia committee (AMAD) that:
Kirkey continued by stating that the law requires independent oversight. She stated:
The data come amid calls for greater scrutiny — and more public transparency — over MAID deaths. Recent controversial cases include an Ontario man who was assessed for MAID outside a Tim Hortons coffee shop and, six months later, driven by the same doctor to a storage facility where bodies are prepared for funerals, where the MAID provision took place.
In another case, an Ontario man resumed breathing after being declared dead after the doctor failed to use the proper sequence of drugs.
Last December 26-year-old Kiano Vafaeian, who struggled with vision loss from diabetes and depression, died by MAID in a Vancouver funeral home after being denied MAID by doctors in his home province.
people are getting MAID “for reasons that are frankly illegal.”There were 3000 reported euthanasia deaths in BC in 2024 and 3156 in 2025. BC has the second highest rate of euthanasia in Canada.
There were approximately 17,700 Canadian euthanasia deaths in 2025.
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