Tue Aug 30, 2022 – 4:46 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Maxime Bernier, the head of the People’s Party of Canada (PPC), said those pushing euthanasia on the vulnerable should be held “criminally responsible” for their actions.
“Are we getting to a point where we’re pushing people to choose euthanasia because our dysfunctional health care system doesn’t have the resources to treat them,” Bernier wrote in a recent blog post.
“Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) should NEVER be suggested or pushed on patients, and we should change the law if necessary to hold those who do it criminally responsible.”
In the blog post, Bernier noted that Canada’s “dysfunctional health care system” needs to be reformed so that “everyone gets the care they need,” instead of pushing death as the only option for patients.
Canada’s ever-softening rules surrounding euthanasia — or the lethal injection of sick patients — was just recently brought to the spotlight in a disturbing way. Last week, news broke that a Canadian soldier suffering from PTSD was told he should consider assisted suicide as an option.
Bernier took issue with the news of a soldier being offered assisted suicide as a way out.
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