Article By Frank Bergman
A bombshell new report has exposed thousands of “errors” involving Canadian doctors, nurses, and healthcare workers in cases of people being euthanized by the government in British Columbia.
The findings were uncovered through a freedom of information request by Canadian Catholic News, an arm of the Catholic Register.
The request obtained British Columbia’s “Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) Oversight 2024 Year-End Report.”
The report shows that more than half of all “assisted suicide” cases in the province in 2024 involved mistakes that required review by government officials.
The scale of the problem is staggering.
In 2024, 4,169 people in British Columbia were marked for euthanasia.
That was a 10 percent increase from 2023.
Of the roughly 4,190 cases reviewed that year, the province’s MAiD Oversight Unit found 2,807 errors in 51.9 percent of total “case outcomes.”
More Than Half of Cases Had Errors
The report states that cases requiring “follow-up” had missing information.
In 353 cases, or 12.5 percent, officials found compliance concerns.
Those cases “required education” of healthcare personnel “to ensure they understand legal requirements and the professional standards associated with MAiD.”
That means hundreds of euthanasia cases raised concerns serious enough that government officials had to step in and educate medical personnel about legal and professional requirements.
The errors did not stop the system from continuing.
According to the report, 72 percent of the MAiD cases resulted in people being killed by state-sanctioned lethal injection.
Another 23 percent died of other causes.
Four percent were found not eligible for the deadly procedure under current Canadian law.
Only 1.4 percent of people asked to withdraw their assisted suicide cases.
The numbers paint a chilling picture of a system that is expanding quickly while producing a shocking number of mistakes.
Euthanasia Watchdog Sounds Alarm
Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, said the findings expose a major crisis inside British Columbia’s assisted suicide regime.
“It’s all very shocking that you have such a large amount and percentage of errors in British Columbia,” Schadenberg said, according to the Catholic Register report.
Schadenberg said it is “clear” that there are serious “problems” with euthanasia in the province.
The province’s own numbers support that warning.
In 2024, 6.5 percent of all deaths in British Columbia were caused by MAiD.
That number is continuing to rise.
Health officials in the province have not yet responded to the report’s findings.
Their silence leaves Canadians facing an urgent question.
How many people are being approved for death inside a system where more than half of the cases are being flagged for errors?
Canada’s Euthanasia Regime Keeps Expanding
Euthanasia has been legal in Canada since 2016.
In less than a decade, the practice has moved from a supposedly limited medical exception to a rapidly expanding death-on-demand system.
Canada’s Catholic bishops recently marked the “sobering” 10th anniversary of euthanasia legalization by calling for renewed respect for life.
They warned against “complacency with the status quo on euthanasia in Canada” and said the deadly practice can “never” be morally acceptable.
The warning comes as assisted suicide has become increasingly normalized across Canada.
The system has grown so casual that one doctor even approved a euthanasia procedure in a coffee shop parking lot.
That is the reality now confronting Canadians.
A practice once sold as rare and tightly controlled is now responsible for a significant share of deaths in provinces such as British Columbia.
And the government’s own oversight documents show thousands of mistakes inside that system.
Mental Illness Expansion Looms
The danger is set to grow even further.
Canada is still scheduled to expand euthanasia to people suffering solely from mental illness in 2027 because of Bill C-7.
Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre recently praised news that a parliamentary committee recommended that euthanasia not be expanded to those with mental illness.
However, unless the current Liberal government under Prime Minister Mark Carney stops the expansion, it is still set to become law.
That outcome appears unlikely given Carney’s record on life issues.
The prospect of euthanasia for mental illness has triggered alarm among critics who warn that vulnerable Canadians could be pushed toward death instead of treatment, support, and care.
British Columbia’s new report makes that warning even more urgent.
If the existing euthanasia system is already producing errors in more than half of reviewed cases, expanding the regime to include mental illness would deepen the crisis.
A System Built for Death
The British Columbia report exposes the brutal reality behind Canada’s assisted suicide regime.
Thousands of people are asking to die.
Hundreds of cases are raising compliance concerns.
More than half of the case outcomes are being flagged for errors.
And thousands are still dying by euthanasia.
The government calls it “Medical Assistance in Dying.”
Critics call it state-sanctioned killing.
Whatever name officials use, the numbers now show a system expanding faster than it can safely control.
Canada’s euthanasia regime was sold as compassionate.
The latest report shows something far darker: a bureaucracy of death where mistakes are common, oversight comes after the fact, and vulnerable people are being moved through a system that ends with a lethal injection.
The question is no longer whether Canada’s euthanasia regime is dangerous.
The question is how many warnings officials will ignore before they finally stop expanding it.
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