National Association of Federal Retirees hosts webinar from Dying with Dignity

Dear National Association of Federal Retirees,

I just wanted you to know how upsetting it was to see that the Association of Federal Retirees is promoting a seminar from Dying with Dignity about MAID. I am against euthanizing people. It is an immoral and unethical action to kill people who are ill, instead of providing them with compassionate care and or palliative care to help them in their final days.

Dying with Dignity pushes their death agenda onto Canadians by using donations from Canadians to lobby government into pushing for more and more greater use of MAID. 

Even the UN has spoken out against our horrific MAID regime:

https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/un-committee-rightly-calls-out-canadas-systemic-devaluation-of-disability-david-shannon-in-canadian-affairs/

https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/un-committee-rightly-calls-out-canadas-systemic-devaluation-of-disability-david-shannon-in-canadian-affairs/#:~:text=By%20David%20Shannon%2C%20June%209,foreseeable%20%E2%80%94%20to%20qualify%20for%20MAID.

https://www.cardus.ca/news/news-releases/statement-regarding-un-committees-call-to-reverse-maid-expansion-in-canada/#:~:text=The%20UN%20Committee%20on%20the%20Rights%20of,MAiD%20for%20mental%20illness%20should%20be%20reversed

Unsuspecting vulnerable members may attend the webinar without realizing that Dying with Dignity is the major advocate of euthanasia in this country, and that this webinar will most certainly discuss MAID.

I hope that you will reconsider hosting this webinar from Dying with Dignity, and instead provide access to another provider.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Patricia Maloney

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When talking about MAID: "I absolutely love data"

Here is the final part of my most recent ATIP regarding Dying With Dignity. 

The friendly, chummy, cozy relationship between Health Canada and DWDC is on full display in these 75 pages of the document where we see all the back and forth between the two about a webinar that Health Canada does for the pro-deathers. In particular this webinar has the Senior Analyst, Strategic Policy of the End of Life Care unit of Health Canada presenting data on MAID.

After the webinar the Health Canada analyst tells the pro-deathers how she just LOVES data. Remember, we are talking about data concerning the people in Canada who have been killed by euthanasia. 

And the senior analyst looks forward to doing it again next year. So fun.

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From DWDC

Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2023 4:28 PM

To: End of Life Care people at Health Canada

Subject: Re: Presenter status

Hello,

Thank you so much to you for joining us today. XXXXX and XXXXX let me know that they could barely keep up with the rapid-fire questions from our audience, that's how engaging the session was today! In total, we had 411 attendees during the session. The numbers fluctuate slightly for technical issues or folks that join/leave, but we evened out at about 400.

I just wanted to say thank you both for such a fantastic webinar. Your insights, expertise, and enthusiasm was infectious throughout the session. Have a look at some of our feedback:

• Very interesting and valuable information. This data will be so important when our politicians are tasked with the potential upcoming legislation.
• An excellent overview of the data which has encouraged me to now go and read the full report.
• Annette's love of data and her passion was evident throughout. Thank you to both presenters - nice to see a colleague, Blain, building and adding to the Q&A. It is about evolution of data and getting this info out to dispel myths.
• This has been a first-class presentation in every way. The slides were so very good and easy to understand and great, easy-to-listen-to speakers. Thank you so much.

I know I speak for all of us here at DWDC when I say that it has been a privilege to work with you from start to finish, and that we at DWDC would be delighted to keep in touch for future collaborations, perhaps when the next Annual Report is published next year. I hope that you both have a wonderful holiday season and a Happy New Year.

Sincerely,

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From: End of Life Care presenters at Health Canada

Sent: November 22, 2023 6:23 PM

Subject: RE: Presenter status

Hi XXXXX,

Thank you so much for this feedback! It was a pleasure to work with you and to present this data today. I absolutely love data, the story it tells, and how it helps us move forward. It was fantastic to see so many folks engaged in the topic.

Thank you also for the excellent moderation. Once I got going into the presentation, it was totally seamless from beginning to end!

Appreciate your support, and look forward to next year (:Wishing you the best for the upcoming holiday season!

Best regards,

Ontario's double standard anti-semitism VS anti-abortion

Dear Doug Ford,

Regarding Fr. De Souza's article today in the National Post, I have a question to ask you.

Remember Canada's so-called safe abortion act https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/17s19 that discriminates against peaceful people praying outside abortion clinics? A discriminatory bill that you have allowed to stay in place since you came into power? Well radical anti-semitic protesters continue to get a free pass to harass and yell and disrupt outside Synagogues and Jewish neighbourhoods in Ontario.

Pro-life people who prayed quietly outside of abortion clinics are a world of difference compared to these other violent and abusive protesters. Yet you do nothing to stop them.

If pro-lifers were to act similarly at any abortion clinic in Ontario they'd be locked up so fast your head would spin. Doug Ford, can you please explain this double standard to us?

I look forward to your response.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Patricia Maloney

Dying with Dignity's chummy relationship with Health Canada continues

Dying with Dignity is way too friendly with the Department of Health, including the many Ministers of Health. Bureaucrats bend over backwards to make sure that Ministers meet with Helen Long and her pro-death organization. It's really creepy if you ask me.

In this memo below, "there is no specific topic of discussion" for this meeting request from Dying with Dignity, yet the meeting will still go ahead. DWDC just asks for a meeting with the Minister and bingo, they get it. Just like that. Nothing specific to talk about. Why does this pro-death bunch get to have the ear of the Health Minister whenever they want to? Do those opposed to MAID also get a meeting with the Minister whenever they want to? I doubt it.

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REQUESTOR’S NAME - NOM DU DEMANDEUR Barb French [of the Ministerial briefing unit]

DATE 2023-09-25

NUMBER - NUMERO 23-109024-214

REQUEST ORIGIN - ORIGINE DE LA DEMANDE

Minister's Office/Cabinet du Ministre

SUBJECT - OBJET

Minister Saks' Office Request: PS Fisher to meet Dying with Dignity Canada

REQUEST - DEMANDE (YYYY-MM-DD)

(1)Date 2023-09-25

SPB:

Minister Saks has delegated an introductory meeting with Dying with Dignity Canada to Parliamentary Secretary Fisher the week of Sept 25th. Time and date are TBC and there is no specific topic of discussion. However, should it be helpful for context, a recent meeting request (23-007471-535) is attached. When assessing the meeting request for the Minister, SPB recommended that the meeting take place with the following rationale: DWDC is a key stakeholder that supports MAID and aims to provide clear and factual information to Canadians about MAID, the legislation, the process and providing supports and resources to people who wish to know more and who wish to access MAID.

DWDC is an advocacy group and does want to see a broader MAID and end of life regime in Canada that it believes aligns with the Canadian Constitution and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In meeting with this organization, the Minister could learn about relevant ‘on the ground’ views on system and clinician preparedness for the lifting of the mental illness exclusion clause on March 17, 2024. The organization is also focussing [sic] advocacy efforts calling for the Government [to] expand legislation again to allow for advance requests for MAID. Quebec recently passed amendments to its provincial MAID legislation to put in place an advance request regime for MAID in the next 2 years (which is not in alignment with current federal law). The Minister may wish to listen to their thoughts on this kind of further expansion

Please prepare a Memo to the Minister of Mental Health and Addictions [Note: This position was abolished in March 2025. Thank you Mark Carney.] for a meeting, points to register and a bio (this may include updating a recent note). Also please identify an individual to participate in a pre-brief as well as the meeting.

Kindly submit the requested materials and confirmation of participant[s] to MBU by Sept 27, at 4:00. Templates attached. Should contacts for Input from other areas of the Health Portfolio be required, kindly let us know.

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Next we have the memo to Minister Saks about this upcoming meeting. It is a nine (9) page memo. Summary of memo below:

MEMORANDUM TO THE MINISTER OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTIONS AND ASSOCIATE MINISTER OF HEALTH Meeting with Dying with Dignity Canada / Reunion avec Dying with Dignity Canada

SUMMARY

• Your office has accepted a request to meet with Dying with Dignity Canada (DWDC). Parliamentary Secretary Fisher will meet with Helen Long, Chief Executive Officer, DWDC during the week of September 25th.

• DWDC is a national human-rights charity committed to improving [the] quality of dying, protecting end-of-life rights, and helping people across Canada avoid unwanted suffering.

• Health Canada has had many interactions with DWDC over the past number of years. While they have been strong supporters of Government of Canada MAID policy, they have also been critical of the lack of progress in areas such advance requests.

• Points to Register are included in Appendix A and a biography of CEO Helen Long is included in Appendix B.

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You will be happy to know that DWDC's office is still located on Canada's Indigenous peoples' land. I guess that means they still haven't given said land back to the Indigenous people.

Dying With Dignity Canada's national office is located within Treaty 13, the traditional home of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples. Our presence on this land is not to be taken for granted. We are grateful for the opportunity to share, meet, collaborate, live, and work on this land.