Maxime Bernier Leaderf of the People’s Party of Canada
From 2016 to the end of 2024:
– More than 61 000 Canadians have received MAID.
– MAID accounts for 5% of all deaths in Canada.
Canada has one of the highest, if not the highest, per-capita rates of assisted dying in the world.
What kind of society encourages vulnerable people to end their lives instead of protecting them?
The vast majority of people receiving MAID last year had a “reasonably foreseeable” death, with cancer the most common underlying condition
As Canada approaches the ten-year mark of legalized doctor-assisted death, the number of annual deaths appears to be plateauing, according to the federal government’s latest report on medical assistance in dying (MAID).
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A total of 16,499 people died by MAID in Canada in 2024. However, the year-over-year annual growth rate in deaths has been shrinking, from 36.8 per cent between 2019 and 2020, to 6.9 per cent between 2023 and 2024, according to Health Canada’s sixth annual report on MAID.
