Canada Wants to Euthanize People Just Because They Have Depression

Depression is real. So is healing. Let’s offer care, not killing.

Our not-so-friendly neighbors to the north, the ones who gave us poutine and Celine Dion, are now preparing to hand out euthanasia like it’s a Costco sample.

Canada nearly legalized state-sanctioned suicide for people whose only problem is depression. They didn’t back off because of a sudden moral epiphany. They backed off because their own psychiatrists admitted they have no idea how to declare a mental illness “incurable.” Parliament’s solution? Kick the can to 2027 with Bill C-62. That’s not caution. That’s cowardice.

And let’s not kid ourselves. The ink on that delay isn’t even dry before activists are in court demanding that psychiatric euthanasia be declared a constitutional right. According to them, excluding depressed people from a lethal injection is discrimination. Imagine living in a society where despair itself qualifies for a medical procedure that ends your life. That’s not compassion, that’s government-assisted suicide with better branding.

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So what does euthanasia in Canada actually look like? The government refers to it as “Medical Assistance in Dying,” or MAiD. Once a patient clears the sketchy paperwork and a pair of physicians or nurse practitioners sign off, the procedure is usually carried out by intravenous injection. Doctors administer a series of drugs, one to sedate, one to induce coma, and one to stop the heart. Sounds more like a Texas-style execution.

Less commonly, patients may receive a prescription for lethal oral medication they must take themselves. But the default is the IV route, which means a physician ends the life directly. No euphemism hides what this is: a state-approved killing carried out under the guise of medicine.

If Canada wants a sneak preview of where this ends, Europe is already running the show. The Netherlands recorded 9,958 euthanasia deaths in 2024, up ten percent from the year before, and psychiatric cases rose from 138 in 2023 to about 219.

Oversight boards admitted doctors ignored “due-care” standards in multiple cases. In other words, even in the country that practically invented euthanasia chic, the professionals keep messing it up.

The statistics sound bad enough, but the human stories are worse. In May 2024, Dutch doctors killed 29-year-old Zoraya ter Beek, a woman struggling with depression, trauma, autism, and a personality disorder. After years of failed treatment, the state stepped in, not with more care, but with a syringe.

A few years earlier, another 29-year-old, Aurelia Brouwers,

was euthanized after decades of psychiatric illness. These were young women who might have had decades ahead of them. Instead, their lives ended with a doctor’s note and a state’s blessing.

Belgium, not to be outdone, gave us the spectacle of 23-year-old Shanti De Corte, a survivor of the Brussels airport bombing, who was euthanized in 2022 after being diagnosed with PTSD. Survivors of terror should be given therapy, solidarity, and a lifetime of support, not a shove toward the grave. And the European Court of Human Rights has already smacked Belgium’s system in the case of Godelieva De Troyer, ruling that basic safeguards, like notifying family, were ignored. If this is the model Canada wants to copy, it’s not just reckless, it’s gross and obscene.

Of course, the cheerleaders for this madness hide behind “autonomy.” They argue that if someone wants to die, the state has no right to say no. But let’s be clear: depression and trauma distort judgment. Pretending that suicidal ideation equals a rational medical decision is dishonest and deadly.

Canada’s own Center for Addiction and Mental Health told Parliament point-blank that psychiatrists cannot agree on when a case is hopeless, and the country lacks the tools and resources to make those calls. When the experts are waving both arms in the air, saying, “we aren’t ready,” what kind of government barrels ahead anyway?

And don’t buy the line that “it’ll only be a few cases.” It’s never just a few cases. The Netherlands started small, too. Belgium did the same. Now the numbers rise every year, the safeguards bend, then fall apart, and what was once “rare” becomes routine. That’s the story of euthanasia everywhere it takes root. It always expands.

If Canada wants to be humane, it should invest in therapy, shorten the lengthy waitlists for psychiatric care, and prioritize long-term treatment. Instead, it is prepping paperwork to funnel despairing people into the arms of a state-sanctioned death machine.

That isn’t progress, it’s a betrayal of the vulnerable.

Since when did sadness become a death sentence? Since governments decided it was cheaper to kill than to care. Depression is real. Healing is real. Canada should stop importing Europe’s failures and start acting like life is still worth living. Because it always is.

LifeNews.com Note: Raimundo Rojas is the Outreach Director for the National Right to Life Committee. He is a former president of Florida Right to Life and has presented the pro-life message to millions in Spanish-language media outlets. He represents NRLC at the United Nations as an NGO. Rojas was born in Santiago de las Vegas, Havana, Cuba and he and his family escaped to the United States in 1968.

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