Canada Delays Plans To Euthanize Mentally Ill People But Not Because It's An Insane Plan

Canada's mission to start killing off the mentally ill hit a roadblock this week, but it's not because the country decided it's actually an insane proposition. 

"The (health-care) system needs to be ready," Health Minister Mark Holland announced Monday as the government neared its March 17 deadline to start allowing the mentally ill to be euthanized. "It’s clear from the conversations that we’ve had that the system is not ready and we need more time."

Across the country, politicians now agree with Holland: They're just not ready for the rubber to meet the road. They're not saying this is a flat-out bad idea. They just keep saying not yet. 

TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA - 2020/06/12: Canadian National flag waving on a clear sunny day. (Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images)

This week, Chris Selley of Canada's National Post lit into the liberal politicians who came up with this plan.

"It’s a grotesque notion: Once we get a handle on Canada’s myriad mental health-care crises, then we’ll be in a morally justifiable position to euthanize the mentally ill? Once we solve the housing crisis, then it’ll be fine to euthanize the homeless? These are artifacts of a debate that has gone miles off the rails," Selley wrote. 

"'Not ready' aren’t the words Canadian politicians are looking for. ‘Not ever’ are the words," he concluded. 

Canadian bioethicist Kerry Bowman summed up what such a plan would've meant for humanity. Medical experts would've had the responsibility of answering "deep questions about what types of lives we consider worth living and which we don’t," Bowman said. 

Look, I'm not an expert on Canadian politics, the legalities of euthanasia in Canada (it's legal, I know that) and what Canadians are thinking (fewer than 45% of Canadians supported euthanasia for mentally ill in 2022), but I do know that Justin Trudeau and his government's ideas on how to handle mental illness were interesting during the COVID era when Trudeau's goons pulled over and ticketed citizens for golfing and working on their mental health. 

I also know it was Trudeau's goons who arrested people for playing pond hockey and working on their mental health during COVID lockdowns. 

Hey, why let them work on their mental illness when we can just let them go mentally insane and then chose to die instead, seems to be the message here. 

In a country that likes to lecture others on how great its socialized medicine is, it seems like this plan to just let the mentally ill off themselves is the opposite of doing what's right for humans. 

Is this compassion?

Where's the drive to make things right? Where's the government saying they're going to make things better for society? 

The Canadian government wants to have its hands in everything like how many beers a guy can drink, but it doesn't want to step up and provide mental illness support. Instead, it wants to offer assisted suicide. 

Eh, just off yourself via one of our doctors. It makes things easier. 

Save us the lectures. Start fixing yourself.