I learned that taxpayers paid $289,226 to MAID advocates to create a podcast on MAID called Disrupting Death. I listened to five episodes. It is a pro-euthanasia podcast, as one would expect. (Maybe other episodes will be more neutral and or against MAID but somehow I doubt it.) It reminds me of the pro-aborts who love to gush over, and celebrate, abortion. The podcast was acknowledged on the university website:
Dr. Kathy M. Kortes-Miller, School of Social Work, Disrupting Death; An examination of Canadian Experiences with Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), $289,226.
Because this is taxpayer money, I checked the government's grants and contributions database to find the grant. Which I did here. But surprise, surprise. The word MAID never appears in the description (I had to use the researcher's name to find the grant). Neither does "medical assistance in dying". In fact if you use either of those terms, or "disrupting death", to search the database, the grant does not show up. Yet clearly the money went to fund this pro-MAID podcast.
I have two questions:
1) What other grants that promote and celebrate MAID are likewise hidden in the Open Government database?
2) What are the chances that the government would also fund an anti-MAID podcast?
