11% of Canadians know someone who was offered euthanasia.

Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

A recent Leger poll of 1510 randomly selected Canadians found, among other things, that 11% of Canadians knew someone who was offered (MAiD) euthanasia. The question was one of 11 questions. This question asked:

Have you or someone you know been offered MAiD for a condition they felt was treatable?

This question was important as it focused on people with treatable conditions being offered euthanasia.

Tamara Jansen

Tamara Jansen's speech on Bill C-218 on September 23rd first commented on the death of Kiano Vafaeian (26) who was living with mental illness and killed by (MAiD) euthanasia on December 30, 2025. Tamara continued:

And when I heard Kiano's story, I could not stop thinking about my own little brother.

In 2023 he was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. He knew he was dying but wanted to live. But the medical staff at Abbotsford hospital seemed to want to end his life.

While laying on a bed in the hallway on the oncology ward he was asked, not once, not twice, not three, four, or five times but six separate times if he wanted MAiD!

They were relentless.

They pressed him saying that they didn’t think they would be able to control his pain, scaring him out of his wits, but he still had the will to live.

So that final time he gave them a big Hell No!

I’m very proud of my little brother for standing up for his life…..for having the courage and commitment to make a statement that his life was still worth living, even if it was only for another 8 or 10 months.

He had time to mend fences, make friends with the staff at Hospice, say goodbye to his family.

Tamara Jansen's personal story about her brother is the tip of the iceberg. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition regularly receives calls from supporters with similar stories.

A woman called EPC on behalf of her elderly Aunt who was receiving treatment in a London Ontario hospital.

The woman told me that her Aunt was asked, if she wanted euthanasia twice, in a pretty persuasive manner, and she said NO.

The woman said that her Aunt was very upset because the person in the bed next to her was sold euthanasia at the bedside. Her Aunt told her that the MAiD team sold euthanasia as a beautiful death and made the person in the bed next to her, who was not asking for euthanasia, fear that she would otherwise have a terrible death.

The Aunt was concerned that the MAiD team might do the same to her, when she was going through a difficult time and she wanted to know if there was anything that could be done to stop the MAiD team from asking her about MAiD.

We told the woman to order the Life Protecting Power of Attorney for Personal Care for her Aunt. The clear language in the EPC Life Protecting Power of Attorney for Personal Care is designed to protect her life.

EPC sells the Life Protecting Power of Attorney for Personal Care for $10 + taxes. Order the Life Protecting Power of Attorney (Order Link) or call EPC at: 1-877-439-3348 or info@epcc.ca

We asked if they wanted our new Do not ask me about euthanasia. I am not interested card.  

 

EPC will send this card with any donation amount (Donation Link) or by emailing us at info@epcc.ca.

EPC will also send you the Do Not Kill Me. I oppose euthanasia and assisted suicide card upon request. Just email us at: info@epcc.ca.

MAiD teams are selling euthanasia at the bedside. This is a form of coercion.

Euthanasia is medical homicide.