I have long railed against Canada's MAiD program, and the similar programs foisted on us by Democrats here in the States. Nothing good ever comes of the government deciding who lives or dies. They may say it's done to give those with terminal illnesses a "death with dignity," which can be achieved through professional, well-managed hospice care. That's something the government also makes challenging, and I know this because I was a hospice nurse for several years.
But what happened with MAiD is what will happen with every such program: it starts with the terminally ill and expands to include the chronically ill, the mentally ill, the poor, the depressed, the disabled. What was promised as a merciful death with dignity quickly becomes a widespread euthanasia program where no one is safe from the government's hand of death. Canadian officials are now considering adding disabled infants to the MAiD program, in case you weren't adequately appalled by this depravity, and rather than provide care for the very treatable condition known as hyperparathyroidism, Canada's healthcare system offered to end the life of a woman named Jolene.
Never fear, however, because Dr. Jocelyn Downie wants to reassure all of us that the majority of MAiD's victims are "very privileged, white, and well off."
Meanwhile in Canada,
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) February 19, 2026
Dr. Jocelyn Downie: "People doing MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying) are actually very privileged, white, and well off"pic.twitter.com/dIJa6BFmv9
Oh, well, that makes it okay then.
Not.
Now, I understand that Leftists will justify anything, and if the majority of MAiD recipients were Black and poor Canadians, they would probably couch it in terms of ending inequality in death and dying, or something. But the rest of the world would look at that with horror, and rightly so. Say such a thing about any other demographic group, and there would be accusations of genocide and mass murder flying from every corner of the planet.
But because Canada is offing white, rich, and privileged folks, most of us just shrug. We shouldn't. That's precisely the demographic that the Left has sought to eliminate from society.
“Privileged, white, well off, have families”
— Jason Jones (@jonesville) February 19, 2026
The demographic that the left wants more than anything to eliminate from society.
Imagine that.
In New York, Zohran Mamdani said he's basing his vision for the city on South Africa, where they persecute and kill White Africans in the name of "justice" for "historical privilege." In a letter from the African National Congress, they wrote (emphasis added), "What the instigators of this falsehood seek is not safety, but impunity from transformation. They flee not from persecution, but from justice, equality and accountability for historic privilege. The misuse of refugee protections to shield right-wing, anti-transformation elements is a violation of the spirit and letter of international law. Millions around the world face real persecution and they are the ones deserving of sanctuary, not those offended by a democratic society working to redress past injustice."
In 2002, Harvard Magazine was already pushing to destroy the White race: "Make no mistake about it: we intend to keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females too, until the social construct known as 'the white race' is destroyed — not 'deconstructed' but destroyed."
But rounding up the privileged, white, well-off families and simply deleting them wouldn't play well in the media, even with as insane as the Left is, so rather than blatant genocide, it appears Canada has found a medical workaround.
Canada does this since they can’t afford universal healthcare and they need people to d*e.
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) February 19, 2026
Yes, that’s actually their real rationale.
It’s grossly inhumane.
Yes, this is also a damning indictment of "free" universal healthcare, where those who simply cost the system too much are eliminated.
History shows that when governments assume the authority to decide which lives are burdens and which lives are worth preserving, the circle never shrinks — it widens. It becomes a machine that keeps eating everything in sight. What begins as “compassion” for the terminally ill becomes policy for the inconvenient, the expensive, or the unwanted, and the "right" to die soon becomes a duty and fiscal obligation. That is not dignity. It is power, and it is power that no government should ever wield. Americans should watch Canada closely. Policies that begin abroad as “progress” often find eager advocates here at home. The question is not whether assisted death will expand — experience suggests that it will. The question is whether voters will demand limits before expansion becomes irreversible.