Canada is one of several Western nations rushing to loosen the laws around euthanasia. While its expansion of access to voluntary extermination by the state can be attributed in part to a concerted campaign in recent years by the leftist Trudeau government, it is clear that a significant portion of the population is also on board.
A new survey from the Vancouver-based market research outfit Research Co. has found that 73% of Canadians support the current euthanasia regime in Canada, whereby adults with an irremediable medical condition can consent to be put down by the state. However, a significant cohort of younger respondents indicated a keenness to radically expand the option to the poor and the homeless.
Mario Canseco, president of Research Co., indicated that on the basis of a poll conducted from April 22 to April 24 among 1,000 adults:
The responses varied greatly by generational cohort.
\u201cNew Canadian survey on attitudes to euthanasia. 27% think people should have access to euthanasia because of poverty (41% among the 18-34). 28% for homelessness, 43% for mental illness, and 50% for being disabled (60% among the 18-34).\u201d— Yuan Yi Zhu (@Yuan Yi Zhu) 1683511767
60% of respondents in the 18-34 age group said that a person with a disability should be able to request a state-administered suicide. By way of comparison, 46% of respondents in the 35-54 age group and 44% of those in the 55+ age group suggested that the disabled should be eligible for voluntary extermination.
41% of those in the 18-34 age group answered that homelessness was a good enough reason for state-assisted suicide. 29% of respondents in the 35-54 age group agreed that the homeless should be given a legal lethal way out by the Canadian government.
Zoomers and Millennials majoritively (55%) reportedly reckon mental illness is a justifiable reason for state-assisted suicide.
TheBlaze previously reported that as of March 17, 2023, Canadians whose only medical condition is a mental illness are able to request state-assisted euthanasia. That includes persons suffering from depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD, and various other mental issues.
Some suspect a correlation between this apparent support for the state's elimination of the weak and infirm and the decline of religion in Canada — a nation that recently removed all Christian religious imagery from its heraldry and has witnessed a precipitous decline in regular religious engagement.
Historian and broadcaster Tom Holland said of the survey results, "Now, this really IS post-Christian."
Marry Harrington, an editor at Unherd, similarly remarked, "Welcome to post-Christian social ethics."
Statistics Canada indicated that whereas religious affiliation was approximately 85% among Canadians born between 1940 and 1959, that number is 32% for those born between 1980 and 1999, reported Global News.
David Brooks, writing in the Atlantic, indicated that the euthanasia laws seen in Canada and elsewhere throughout the Anglosphere reveal what "happens when a society takes individualism to its logical conclusion."
While Brooks suggested Canada's so-called Medical Assistance in Dying program was originally "well defined," he acknowledges that the movement to extinguish complicated lives raced precisely to those extremes where critics like Cardinal Thomas Collins of Toronto said it would go.
Collins wrote in 2020, "Pain medication and other resources and procedures can indeed be used effectively to medically assist people who are dying. But that is not what MAiD involves: it means giving a lethal injection to people who are not dying, so that they will die."
"Those who oppose euthanasia expressed concern in 2016, when it was first legalized, that once the state legally provided death for some, it would only be a matter of time before its criteria would be expanded," wrote Collins. "This was dismissed as a slippery slope argument; we were told that 'safeguards' would protect the most vulnerable. Now, less than four years later, we are far down the slope."
Collins stressed that those persons whom younger Canadians now see as prime candidates for voluntary extermination "should never be seen as a burden to our society. These people need assisted living, not assisted death."
In his Atlantic piece, Brooks wrote, "As assisted suicide has become an established part of Canadian society, the complex moral issues surrounding the end of life have drifted out of sight. Decisions tend to be made within a bureaucratic context, where utilitarian considerations can come to dominate the foreground."
Over 10,000 Canadians were put down by the state via MAID in 2021, making up 3.3% of all deaths in Canada that year. Well over 31,664 Canadians have been killed via the MAID program since 2016.
81% of euthanasia requests were approved.
The Spectator noted last year how, prior to the legalization of the MAID amendments, Canada's parliamentary budget officer released a report indicating how much money would be saved as a result of Bill C-7, which broadened and loosened the language of Canada's euthanasia law. Extra to the $86.9 million per year previously saved by state-facilitated killings, an additional $62 million in costs would be reduced.
The Trudeau government recognized that it could save money by taking lives, even if the taxpayers had to pay $2,327 every time a fellow citizen reached the breaking point.
The man credited with founding the Canadian health care system, Tommy Douglas, was a eugenicist who advocated for the sterilization and segregation of some of the very people now being exterminated by the state.
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Andrea Mitchell isn’t just a journalist with MSNBC. According to Dave Rubin, she is now officially the winner of the contest for drumming up the worst take on the Trump arrest.
She said on a panel on MSNBC, “It may or may not be coincidental, but both the DA and the judge are people of color.”
She then told the panel that the two have become “targets” of Trump because of this.
Dave Rubin sits down with Jeffrey Tucker and John Cardillo to discuss what he believes is the worst possible take on Trump’s arrest.
“Guys, I am so tired of this racializing of everything.”
He continues, “I’m starting to think this is projection more than anything else.”
Tucker agrees, saying, “Donald Trump has a huge and hardcore [base] of black American support. ... The race issue is not even a thing anymore, like, if it ever was.”
He believes “the only people who are making it a thing are Trump’s enemies" and that “if you want to find people who are fed up with it and want to get away from all this identity politics, you’re going to find them in the Republican Party.”
Where won’t you find them?
Tucker believes that they “certainly [cannot be found among] the mainstream media or the Democratic National Committee activists.”
Cardillo adds that Trump’s past is the last place you’ll find evidence of racism.
He calls the charges of racism against Trump “preposterous and asinine,” saying, “I mean, you go back in Trump’s history before he was a politician — he was partying with 50 Cent, P. Diddy.”
He continues, “The guy was being celebrated by Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton back in the 80s and 90s, so it’s a preposterous narrative.”
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The U.S. dollar may be on its way out as the global reserve currency.
Saudi Arabia is actively engaging in negotiations with Chinese officials to price oil sales to China in yuan instead of the U.S. dollar, the Wall Street Journal reported.
If the two countries decide to conduct business using the Chinese yuan instead of the U.S. dollar, this could mean trouble for America’s dominance as the global economic hegemon.
Reportedly, the Saudi talks with China have been off and on for six years but have recently begun to accelerate as Saudi leadership grows increasingly discontented with American security commitments to defend the country.
The Saudis are unhappy with the lack of American support for their intervention in the ongoing Yemen civil war and over the Biden administration’s renewed attempts to strike a deal with Iran over its nuclear program.
Saudi officials are also reportedly uncomfortable with the Biden administration’s ham-fisted withdrawal from Afghanistan last year.
China currently buys more than 25% of the oil exported from Saudi Arabia. Should these transactions be conducted in yuan instead of dollars, those sales would boost the standing of China’s currency and diminish the standing of the dollar.
Around 80% of global oil sales are transacted in dollars. Saudi Arabia exports roughly 6.2 million barrels of crude oil a day. If the Saudis price even a fraction of this in something other than the dollar, it would mark a profound shift in the global economy’s pecking order.
Since 1974, the Saudis have traded oil exclusively in dollars after making a deal with the Nixon administration that promised security guarantees for the kingdom.
In 2018, the Chinese government introduced oil contracts priced in yuan as it worked to make its currency more tradeable across the globe. To China’s chagrin, this did not increase its leverage in the oil market. And as the Chinese government seeks to reduce its — and by extension the globe’s — dependence on the dollar, it has worked overtime to court Saudi leadership.
In recent years, China has helped the Saudi kingdom domestically manufacture ballistic missiles, provided guidance on the Saudi nuclear initiative, and poured money into Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s pet projects.
Whereas China’s relationship with Saudi Arabia appears to be improving, America’s relationship with the Saudi government is rapidly deteriorating. Prince Mohammed refused to sit in on a call between President Biden and Saudi ruler King Salman in February after U.S. intelligence officials suggested that the prince ordered the killing of a journalist.
A Saudi official said, “The dynamics have dramatically changed. The U.S. relationship with the Saudis has changed, China is the world’s biggest crude importer and they are offering many lucrative incentives to the kingdom.”
He added, “China has been offering everything you could possibly imagine to the kingdom.”
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