Blogger Comment: This article in just a single case that outlines what happens when very loosely drafted legislation is used for a national Law and where initially from where it was made Law, is expanded to include the infirm and mentally ill, without another Law being introduced or enacted and where initially it was ONLY for the terminally ill who had ‘state euthanasia’ sanctioned…no-one else…but now state Euthanization is rampant in multiple health sectors, without political debate…or anything else…and where the introduced legislation is just added or what was in the the Law, is totally politically manipulated and where the people are not told either where MSM do not report either and it only in small print if at all…the people are therefore totally unaware of this and democracy just simply goes out of the window…what for God’s sake is happening in our Western countries, as these things never ever happened before and in the quickness that they are literally being changed and introduced without a word to the public…this is sinister to say the least…
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An Ontario court has blocked the Canadian government from euthanizing a healthy Toronto woman living with bipolar disorder with an “emergency access” order for “assisted suicide.”
In May, doctors requested an emergency stay from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice to immediately end actress and comedian Claire Brosseau‘s life with a lethal injection.
Brosseau suffers from bipolar 1 disorder and says she endures “constant pain and unrelenting torment.”
If successful, the emergency court order would have allowed the socialized healthcare system to euthanize Brosseau under Canada’s taxpayer-funded Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Carissima Mathen denied the emergency motion Thursday, meaning doctors cannot currently end Brosseau’s life under MAiD based solely on her psychiatric condition.
However, the ruling only blocks the immediate request for a lethal injection.
Under Canada’s existing timetable, the restriction preventing mentally ill patients from qualifying for MAiD is scheduled to expire in March 2027.
Once that happens, mental illness alone will become sufficient to qualify under the federal MAiD framework, subject to its eligibility requirements.
Court Stops Emergency Push for Euthanasia
Mathen acknowledged evidence concerning the severity of Brosseau’s suffering but also cited major competing considerations.
Those included “Parliament’s role to make policy decisions on sensitive social issues and the proper interpretation of the Charter rights in play.”
Brosseau condemned the decision, according to a statement through the euthanasia advocacy organization Dying With Dignity Canada.
“I am disappointed yet not surprised that my emergency motion was denied,” Brosseau said.
She argued that the ruling merely extends her suffering.
“This is not living – I do not have a life,” she added, according to the statement.
Doctors are currently prohibited from euthanizing Brosseau because bipolar disorder is her sole underlying medical condition.
She is otherwise perfectly healthy.
Dying With Dignity Canada is already fighting to eliminate that barrier.
The organization sued the federal government in August 2024 over its exclusion of patients whose only underlying condition is mental illness.
That legal battle remains active.
Mathen ordered Brosseau and the Attorney-General of Canada to move toward an urgent case conference in the lawsuit within 14 days.
Canada Prepares to Cross Another Euthanasia Line
The case comes as Canada approaches another major expansion of a euthanasia system that has repeatedly widened since it was introduced a decade ago.
MAiD became legal nationwide in June 2016.
At first, the system was restricted to Canadians suffering from serious conditions whose natural deaths were considered “reasonably foreseeable.”
That restriction was subsequently removed for another category of patients.
Canada expanded MAiD in 2021 after a Quebec Superior Court ruling found the original law unconstitutional.
The amended system created “track two” MAiD, allowing qualifying patients with grievous and irremediable conditions to seek medically assisted death even when their natural deaths are not reasonably foreseeable.
The government also established a temporary exclusion for people whose sole underlying medical condition is mental illness.
That exclusion has already been extended twice.
It is now scheduled to end in March 2027.
The change would make psychiatric illness alone eligible for consideration under MAiD rather than requiring an accompanying physical medical condition.
Parliamentary Committee Sounds Alarm
Even members of Canada’s Parliament are warning against allowing the expansion to proceed.
A special parliamentary committee investigating MAiD for mental illness heard evidence of “significant complexities and risks, grave concerns and deep divisions that continue to accompany this issue.”
A majority of the committee recommended that Ottawa amend the Criminal Code and indefinitely exclude people whose sole underlying condition is mental illness.
Joseph Cheng, senior counsel for the Attorney-General of Canada, urged the Ontario Superior Court in July to consider those findings.
Brosseau’s attorney Michael Fenrick objected, arguing that the committee’s conclusions did not represent the will of Parliament and that his client’s application required urgent consideration.
The federal government now faces a decision over whether to allow the March deadline to stand.
Three unidentified sources told The Globe and Mail in May that the government was open to introducing legislation stopping the scheduled expansion.
Justice Minister Sean Fraser later said he was reviewing the parliamentary committee’s findings and dissenting opinions.
From Terminal Illness to Psychiatric Suffering
Canada’s MAiD system has moved far beyond the restrictions imposed when euthanasia was first legalized in 2016.
The original framework centered on people suffering from serious medical conditions whose deaths were considered reasonably foreseeable.
Five years later, Canada opened MAiD to qualifying patients who were not approaching natural death.
Now the country is preparing for the next expansion: allowing mental illness itself to serve as the sole underlying medical condition for a medically assisted death.
Brosseau’s case brings that progression into stark focus.
She is 49 years old.
Her underlying condition is bipolar disorder.
Brosseau’s doctors say her suffering is unbearable and her life should be ended.
For now, Canadian law says they cannot.
But the prohibition keeping Brosseau and other psychiatric patients from being euthanized solely because of mental illness is scheduled to disappear in March 2027.
Unless Ottawa changes the law, Canada’s answer to some patients suffering exclusively from severe mental illness will no longer be limited to treatment, support, and suicide prevention.
Medically assisted death will also be on the table.
Folow the link for the source… https://slaynews.com/judge-blocks-canadian-government-euthanizing-mentally-ill-woman/
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