Canada’s MAID Program: A Modernization of the Nazi Regime

She is an accomplished woman—an Army veteran and a paralympian. She’s also disabled—a paraplegic—and her Canadian homeland finds that a bit troublesome. This accomplished lady is Christine Gauthier, who simply sought government help for obtaining a wheelchair lift at her home. Instead, she got something quite different. A Canadian Veterans Affair staffer offered her medically assisted suicide. Gauthier had complained about the years of frustrating delays, to which the staffer responded: ‘Madam, if you are really so desperate, we can give you medical assistance in dying now.’ This was Gauthier’s testimony before the Canadian Parliament. Gauthier has been trying to get the lift since 2017, and it has greatly isolated her. Shockingly, the government’s offer didn’t come in 2026; it was offered in 2019.

Gauthier suffered permanent damage to her spine and knees while in the Army, during a training accident. She went on to compete as a power lifter, indoor rower, and canoeist in the Olympic games.

As she put it, she couldn’t believe that her government would choose an injection so she could die, instead of giving her the tools so she could live.

The HandMAID’s Tale

MAID is Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying program. It started in 2016 and is a legal healthcare service in the country that allows eligible adults with serious and incurable medical conditions to receive medical help to intentionally end their life. Patients have a choice of a doctor administering an end-of-life substance, or the patient can self-administer, too. Federal legislation created the program.

The starting criteria? You must be an adult and be able to make health decisions for yourself. Oh, and you have to have what the Canadian government calls a “grievous and irremediable” medical condition.

According to Health Canada’s own statistics, over 60,000 deaths occurred in MAID between 2016 and 2023, with another ~35,000 estimated for 2024-2025. That is nearly 100,000 people.

Deaths have grown exponential each year, and in 2024, roughly 1 in 20 deaths was by MAID.

 
Let that sink in a minute.

And like any government program, it quickly expanded beyond its original guardrails. Last year, the law expanded to include people with long-term disabilities. It has also expanded to offer euthanasia to patients “whose natural death is not believed to be imminent.”

Starting in 2027, MAID will expand further to offer euthanasia to people suffering from mental illness. Consider how hideous this is—offering a vulnerable person who is suffering severe depression the option of suicide as a reasonable option.

You see where this is going. Suicide will rapidly become a standard treatment for all kinds of pesky conditions that the government doesn’t like.

There are reports of suicide approvals for homeless people, as well as for people with diabetes.

And of course, the Canadian celebrities are glorifying the program. Naturally, MAID needs propaganda, like the video featuring a 37-year-old’s bold choice to end her life last October. In the video, the woman is imagining her last days. The ad from La Maison Simons, a fashion company, was pulled in 2023 after public outrage.

This is sick beyond belief.

And it gets much sicker. And much darker.

MAID’s Rapid Expansion

In 2024 in particular, reports began to surface about the ever-widening use of MAID.

Here is a report of a man being euthanized for undisclosed COVID vaccine injuries. There are reports about MAID being used to end the lives of those with hearing loss.

A 26-year-old man who struggled with seasonal depression was euthanized, much to his family’s abject horror. Kiano Vafaeian had a devastating car accident at age 17. He was blinded, and battled depression during the winter months. Because Kiano was “of age”, the family learned of the approval only days before he was euthanized. Kiano texted his mother that the procedure was scheduled for the next day.

Take a pause and a long deep breath and imagine what that was like for her.

The family feels like the physician in charge was coaching their son since 2022 toward euthanasia. The doctor even coached him on how to make his body weaker. Kiano originally sought assisted suicide in 2022, but his mother discovered the appointment and intervened. Because his depression was seasonal, he always showed improvement during spring and summer, and his family helped him during the long winter months.

Recent reports about MAID assisting suicides of autistic people have also surfaced. A priest, Father Boquet, has been sounding the alarm, and tells the shocking story of Marge, a woman with ADHD and autism recently approved for MAiD. Her case raises urgent questions about unregulated state-sanctioned death. And it indeed should. Boquet says the MAID program is a nightmare for the elderly and disabled. He’s right.

The most recent MAID targeted demographic? Babies.

Yes, babies.

The Quebec College of Physicians (Collège des médecins du Québec) says that in rare conditions, MAID should be considered for newborns in extreme, untreatable suffering, and that parents “should have the opportunity” to request it.

The fact that this is even being discussed should send shivers down your spine.

We’ve Seen This Before

MAID is not new. It’s just modern. A remake of sorts. We’ve seen it before—in Nazi Germany. The Nazis called it Lebensunwertes Leben, “life unworthy of life.” Their ideology was based on racial purity and eugenics, and the belief that society should eliminate traits they considered weak or undesirable.

The Nazis targeted people with people with physical, intellectual, and psychiatric disabilities. If anyone has read (or watched the series) Man in the High Castle, you know the gut-wrenching story of the high-ranking  Nazi officer who hid his disabled son from his own party.

The Nazi’s implemented the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring. This involved the forced sterilization of hundreds of thousands of people with conditions such as epilepsy, schizophrenia, blindness, deafness, and intellectual disabilities.

From 1939-1945, the Nazis had a euthanasia program called Aktion 4. They systematically murdered children and adults in gas chambers, by lethal injection, or by starvation. The Aktion 4 techniques killed about 300,000 people and were the basis for larger programs later used in the concentration camps.

In particular, the Nazis wanted to get rid of disabled infants and children, who were taken from families and murdered in hospitals or “specialized institutions.”

The Nazis viewed all of these as mercy deaths. They also, like Canada does now, saw it as an economic necessity, ridding the country of the burden on society created by disabled people.

Make no mistake, MAID is the more modern, post WWII Aktion 4. There’s no mistake about it, and no argument.

Among the Canadian people, MAID remains a subject of ongoing ethical, legal, and societal debate in Canada, including discussions around eligibility, safeguards, and how best to support people at the end of life. In a Canadian government that is extremely corrupt and in financial downfall, a program like MAID is just the ticket to end the thousands of lives that are homeless, jobless, and hopeless. And the Canadian government has just crossed another slippery slope started issuing reports of how much money is saved by MAID each year. Their figure? Up to 136.8 million annually saved in extended health care.

Does MAID sound like the modern Nazi regime? You already know the answer.