We are learning that Canada’s once justifiably admired health care system is now in shambles.

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Very few will still remember, but in the mid-sixties of the last century, when serious issues could be raised and were still passionately debated, Pope Paul VI published an encyclical, Humanae Vitae, that today reverberates even more powerfully than at the time when it was written. The encyclical clarified the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church on artificial contraception but its core warning was that the seemingly innocuous practice that many couples engaged in for their sensual convenience would open the path to a culture that devalues human life. A culture of death is what Paul VI, we can now say prophetically, called it in 1968 as humanity stood at the threshold of a new age of moral numbness sixty years ago.

Several decades later, as in practice the moral intuition of Paul VI was being undeniably vindicated, one of his successors, John Paul II, writing in the encyclical Evangelium Vitae, expanded on Paul’s far-seeing analysis by adding abortion and euthanasia to the list of life-degrading evils unleashed by modernity.

What provokes now the remembrance of these forgotten Papal encyclicals is not their impact, for they obviously had little to none, but their prescient witness. Today, many decades later, the sombre news emanating from once idyllic and now euthanasia obsessed Canada should distress every morally sensitive soul, urbi et orbi. Canada has turned into an active laboratory for the mass practice of euthanasia, euphemistically known today as “assisted suicide.” Until quite recently it also went under the plainer and more revealing designation of “mercy killing.”

We are learning that Canada’s once justifiably admired health care system is now in shambles. Waiting lists even for routine interventions are unbearably long. Helpful legislators have stepped in to provide a “solution” by greatly loosening legal restrictions to “mercy killing.” The list of circumstances and conditions is expanding that allows doctors and state functionaries, acting at the request of desperate patients who are unable to obtain even the palliative care that would ease their agony, to approve lethal interventions. Such interventions a very short time ago in Canada and the rest of the civilised world would have been regarded as unthinkable and equivalent to murder. It is being done, of course, for purely humanitarian motives, to put the unfortunate patients “out of their misery.”

Jonathon Van Maren, director of the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform, writes in this regard that “stories of Canadians seeking palliative care, mental health resources, homecare, and other medical support finding that the only option available to them is assisted suicide have become routine over the past several years. Euthanasia has become a pressure valve for an overworked and under-funded healthcare system serving an aging population increasingly need of complex care – and if assisted suicide for mental illness is legalized, things will get much, much worse.” It may confidently be assumed that mental illness will be added to the list soon.

Van Maren supports that assertion by citing many poignant examples of  Canadian patients who were manoeuvred into opting for the legally available choice of self-annihilation because financially Canadian society  is no longer in the position to offer them adequate lifesaving medical care. One wonders where the money that could have restored the health and relieved the pain and suffering of many Canadian taxpayers has gone? To prop up the Ukrainian neo-Nazi regime perhaps? Just a wild guess.

Statistics for Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying or [MAID] (as the legal regulation that allows euthanasia is known) are chilling. In 2024 alone, 15, 343 Canadians chose to have their lives terminated under the provisions of this law, constituting 4,7% of all deaths recorded in Canada for that year, a 15,8% increase in relation to 2022.

In cold bureaucratic language, Canadian legislation “permits eligible adults to receive medical assistance to end their life, a process that is available to individuals with a serious and incurable illness, disease, or disability, and who are in an advanced state of irreversible decline with enduring and intolerable suffering. The law has evolved since its 2016 introduction, with expansions that now include those whose death is not reasonably foreseeable, provided they meet other criteria.”

We have obviously come a long way, and arguably in the wrong direction, since both Humanae Vitae and Evangelium Vitae were promulgated, in Canada at least. Investing social resources into the preservation and enhancement of human life evidently does not rank high amongst the priorities of those who run Canada any more, judging by many signs, than of the elites in charge of the collective West in general. Canadian legislators who passed the MAID law to legalise euthanasia, be it recalled, recently enthusiastically feted in their midst a veteran Nazi SS officer invited by their political leadership, who were, of course, fully aware of that individual’s scandalous background. The SS man was there to endorse the visiting head of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi regime who was in Canada to seek another financial transfusion, a request that, as we have seen, could only be satisfied at the expense of life and health of needy Canadian taxpayers who are cynically nudged into choosing suicide because the health care that their society owes them is unavailable.

Which brings us to an historical episode that is very pertinent to our topic. In Nazi Germany “assisted suicide,” “mercy killing,” “euthanasia” or whatever one wishes to call this barbaric practice, was state policy. The Nazi extermination programme was disguised under the official designation of Aktion T4. Its purpose was to physically eliminate human beings with disabilities whom the Nazi state considered undesirable since they did not fit in its master race profile. Yet even in that dark period in 1942, when the totalitarian Nazi regime was at the height of its power, a brave churchman, Bishop Clemens August von Galen of Münster found the courage to publicly raise his voice in several sermons and vigorously denounce the abomination.

The Canadian MAID programme has been operating legally since 2016.   Official statistics disclose that since permissive euthanasia legislation was introduced that year, the cause of 60,301 deaths, or one in every twenty in Canada, was listed as “assisted suicide”. Is there in all of Canada a single  bishop of the moral calibre of von Galen, or even a secular moral authority of whatever kind, whose conscience compels him to raise his voice and who has the courage to do so?

Or are the prescriptions of political correctness and “woke ethics” more intimidating in Canada than the Gestapo was in Germany?