Officials in Canada recorded hundreds of cases of illegal euthanasia that were not referred to law enforcement for charges.
Regulators in Ontario reportedly tracked 428 cases of potential violations of Canadian euthanasia laws.
However, they failed to refer a single case for criminal investigation.
The alarming figures were revealed in leaked information published by The New Atlantis.
While euthanasia is legal in Canada, “assisted suicide” can only be conducted via the government’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program.
According to data, the Ontario Office of the Chief Coroner has counted 428 cases of non-compliance with MAiD regulations since 2017.
Those violations range “from broken safeguards to patients who were euthanized who may not have been capable of consent,” the report shows.
In the documents, Dirk Huyer, head of the Ontario Office of the Chief Coroner, said:
“We see a pattern of not following legislation, a pattern of not following regulation, and frankly we can’t just continue to do education to those folks if they’re directly repeating stuff that we’ve brought to their attention.”
When MAiD was first introduced in 2016, it was initially only available to those who were terminally ill.
Those killing the patients had to follow a series of steps before administering the lethal drugs.
Later, in 2021, Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government expanded the deadly practice to be available to those who are not at risk of death but who suffer solely from chronic illness.
Now, people suffering from poverty, homelessness, depression, autism, vaccine injury, mental illness, or even hearing loss can apply for MAiD.
However, only the government can legally euthanize citizens.
The New Atlantis report cites documentation from 2018 which shows that Huyer, despite admitting regulations are routinely ignored, still stood by the Canadian government’s eugenics agenda.
The coroner attests that “[e]very case is reported.
“Everybody has scrutiny on all of these cases.
“From an oversight point of view, trying to understand when it happens and how it happens, we’re probably the most robust in Canada.”
However, in the summer of 2017, just a year after MAiD was legalized, Huyer co-authored a paper that talked about the high rate of non-compliance among euthanasia providers.
This trend appears to have only continued.
“The MAID regulations require clinicians to notify the pharmacist of the purpose of the MAID medications before they are dispensed,” the paper noted.
The paper adds that only 61% of the physicians followed the rule.
Additionally, many physicians disregarded the 10-day waiting period between requesting MAiD and receiving the lethal drug.
Doctors argued that they expedited the process due to “persistent requests” or an “inconvenient timing of the death in relation to other familial life events.”
By 2018, the problem had developed into what Huyer described as “a pattern of not following legislation.”
This pattern caused the coroner to implement a new system “to respond to concerns that arise about potential compliance issues.”
However, his office raised concerns in 2023 that a quarter of all euthanasia “providers” in Ontario were potentially violating the laws.
Concerns included offering MAiD to people who were incapable of providing real consent such as dementia patients and those with cognitive impairment.
In 2023 alone, the office found 178 compliance problems, an average of one every second day.
Now, the total number of compliance issues sits at 428.
The first cases of non-compliance were brought to light in 2017.
Yet, the police have never been contacted about any of the violations, according to The New Atlantis.
In fact, the numbers are rarely made public.
When the data is published, it is often done quietly in obscure reports.
Instead of being reported to the police by regulators, the MAiD providers who failed to follow the regulations received an “informal conversation” or an “educational” or “notice” email.
The most recent reports show that MAiD is the sixth highest cause of death in Canada.
However, it was not listed as such in Statistics Canada’s top 10 leading causes of death from 2019 to 2022.
When asked why MAiD was left off the list, the agency said that it records the illnesses that led Canadians to be euthanized, rather than “assisted suicide,” as the primary cause of death.
According to Health Canada, 13,241 Canadians died by MAiD lethal injections in 2022 alone.
This accounts for 4.1 percent of all deaths in the country for that year, a 31.2 percent increase from 2021.
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