Mon Nov 28, 2022 – 4:46 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — The president of the pro-life Delta Hospice Society (DHS) Angelina Ireland has disputed Canada’s official euthanasia statistics, saying she believes the rate “of state-sanctioned execution” is much higher than what is being reported.
“I do not believe the government numbers. I believe those being euthanized are much higher than the just over 10,000 the government admits to,” Ireland told LifeSiteNews. “Just by our anecdotal evidence alone, it feels like far more Canadians have succumbed to euthanasia.”
Ireland was responding to a July report from the Government of Canada which shows its ever-more permissive euthanasia laws have increased the assisted suicide death toll by a whopping 32 percent since 2020, with over 10,000 people dying by doctor-assisted suicide in 2021 alone.
Ireland suggested that “perhaps if the people really knew the extent of state-sanctioned execution, it would shock and terrify them into action.”
Ireland also told LifeSiteNews that in Canada’s “current climate” of ever-degrading morality, she expects “the euthanasia numbers to only exponentially increase.”
According to a federal government report, last year, 10,064 people died from what is formally called “Medically Assistance in Dying (MAiD).” By
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