Instead, let's invest in living with dignity

I submitted a second ATIP to Health Canada for Dying with Dignity, to continue where the first one left off:

"Agendas, meeting notes, briefing materials, and calendar entries related to meetings between Canadian not-for-profit "Dying with Dignity Canada" [DWDC] and Health Canada officials between March 2020 and the present day."

I received the following information in an undated memo to the Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Carolyn Bennett regarding a meeting with DWDC:

1) We learn that Dying with Dignity also met previously in December, with the Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion, Carla Qualtrough. This means that DWDC had at least two meetings with two different Ministers about euthanasia.

2) DWDC has a Letter writing campaign. On DWDC's website they encourage people to write to their MP to move:

"swiftly with the legalization of advance requests, so that those who wish to can make a request for MAID while they still have the capacity and autonomy to do so. We can’t lose momentum now." [good grief get a move on, we need to kill more Canadians.]

3) DWDC wants further expansion of advance requests for MAID.

4) DWDC wants to do better data collecting to determine whether there are any "inequalities or disadvantages based on race, Indigenous identity and disability". In other words, are we killing enough people based on race, Indigenous identity and disability?

5) DWDC wants to develop training for practitioners to be responsive to the needs of underserved and marginalized communities. So do they also want to kill more people from these communities? 

6) Next we have something called POINTS TO REGISTER. I'm not sure, but I think this is talking points for the Minister when she meets with DWDC. This is jaw dropping:

"I appreciate all the work you do to educate the public on end-of-life issues and support patients who are exploring MAID as an option. Than you for the thoughtful advice you have provided the government during the legislative consultations, committee reviews of the former BIll C-7 and the regulatory consultations, based on your experiences working with practitioners, patients and their families."

The Minister is thanking DWDC for their input in advocating for the killing of Canadians, all the while why DWDC receives government funding to advocate for killing Canadians. Which brings me to my next point.

7) Heath Canada is investing more money in MAID, to train doctors to kill people. 

How about instead we invest that money in palliative care?

8) DWDC wants to remove the RFND (reasonably foreseeable natural death) clause. In other words, further relax any safeguards that are left to protect people.

9) Health Canada has an end-of-life care unit. 18 people work here. An entire section devoted to working on euthanasia. I am not kidding. Once again, why don't we invest these 18 salaries into palliative care? If we use an average salary of $80,000 (and this figure is probably low), that would be $1,440,000/year we could put towards palliative care.