Canada’s liberal euthanasia laws are now seeing an average of 36 citizens being euthanized by the government every single day.
According to Health Canada’s most recent report on government-assisted suicide, euthanasia now makes up 4.1% of deaths nationwide.
The figure is a significant increase from the 2021 figure of 3.3%.
The fourth annual report on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) for 2022, released late last month, states that since 2016, euthanasia has claimed the lives of nearly 45,000 Canadians.
In 2016, the year MAID was legalized, 1,018 Canadians elected to die via government-assisted suicide. In 2022, that figure ballooned to an astonishing 13,241, which means an average of 36 people are euthanized each day in Canada.
This works out to an average yearly growth rate of 31.1% since 2019.
Data shows that 81% of written requests for MAID were granted.
However, of the remaining 19%, only 3.5% of applicants were deemed ineligible for MAID, a number which has been declining since 2019.
The majority of those denied government-assisted suicide whose natural death was “reasonably foreseeable” were refused due to a lack of patient capacity.
This means that individuals within this category were solely refused because of the lack of beds available, and