Canada will never be ready for assisted suicide for mental illness—because it should never be an option. Parliament has only delayed expansion until March 2027. Urge your MP to support Bill C-218 and stop it for good.
Email Your MPIn Canada, euthanasia is often referred to as Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD). Canada is the only country in the world to use the term MAiD to describe euthanasia.
Allowing euthanasia for those with mental illness undermines suicide prevention and sends the harmful message that some lives are not worth living. It wrongly suggests that those struggling with mental illness cannot find hope, healing, or recovery.
In 2021, Canada expanded euthanasia to those who are not dying — and in 2027, it will be further expanded to include mental illness.
Canada should not be a place that offers death to those struggling with mental illness. We should provide treatment, care, and support so people can live well, not normalize or encourage their wish to die.
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If members of Parliament went back to their constituents and said that instead of having suicide prevention or mental health programs, they would like to make it easier for people with mental illness to die, there would be an outcry.
