Article By Frank Bergman
Alarming new data has revealed that Canada euthanized 16,499 people through its taxpayer-funded socialized healthcare system in 2024, recording 1,135 more deaths than the number of firearm homicides across the United States in the same year.
Health Canada reported 16,499 deaths under the government’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program during 2024.
By comparison, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded 15,364 American firearm homicide deaths over the same year.
Notably, Canada’s population was approximately 41.3 million in 2024, compared with 340.1 million in the United States.
That means Canada’s 16,499 euthanasia deaths represented roughly 0.040% of its entire population, or about 40 deaths per 100,000 people.
America’s 15,364 firearm homicides represented approximately 0.0045% of its population, or 4.5 deaths per 100,000.
Adjusted for population, Canada’s state-administered euthanasia death rate was nearly nine times the U.S. firearm homicide rate.
The staggering figures mean state-administered death was responsible for far more deaths in Canada than gun-wielding killers were in the United States.
The revelation comes amid international outrage over allegations that an 83-year-old Christian grandmother was euthanized against her will after begging doctors to spare her life.
Grandmother Cried: ‘I Don’t Want the Death Shot!’
Brigitte Stegemann died under Canada’s assisted-death program after her family says she made it clear that she wanted to live.
According to her devastated granddaughter, Stegemann “died covered in blood with her hands clasped in prayer.”
Stegemann reportedly cried, “I don’t want the death shot!”
The procedure went ahead anyway, according to her family.
The case has provoked fury on both sides of the border and intensified fears that Canada’s euthanasia regime will be replicated in the United States.
“This … is … evil,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) wrote on X.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) warned Americans that combining government-run healthcare with assisted suicide creates a machinery of state-sanctioned death.
“The intersection of assisted suicide and socialized medicine results in state-led horrors, treating the young, old, infirm, and distressed as disposable people,” Lee wrote.
“We must never allow this barbarity to spread in America.”
‘State-Administered Death’ Surpasses U.S. Gun Homicides
Lee also drew attention to the disturbing comparison between Canada’s euthanasia deaths and American gun homicides.
“State-administered death is now more common in Canada than gun homicide is in the U.S,” Lee wrote.
“That didn’t happen by accident.”
The raw figures support the senator’s warning.
Official data shows that Canada recorded 16,499 MAiD deaths in 2024, while the United States recorded 15,364 firearm homicides.
Canada’s healthcare system therefore ended 1,135 more lives through assisted death than American criminals took using firearms.
Yet Canadians frequently point to U.S. mass shootings while defending their own country’s healthcare system as more compassionate.
Increasingly, however, Canada’s international reputation is being defined by horror stories involving the elderly, disabled, seriously ill, and other vulnerable people being offered death through the medical system.
Stories of Canadians seeking medical assistance only to encounter offers of euthanasia continue to spread worldwide.
A Laura Ingraham interview with a Canadian who said she was forced to travel to America because euthanasia was the only option offered to her has amassed 152 million views on X.
WATCH:
🚨 CANADA vs. AMERICA: “I was DYING… I’m still here.”
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) September 22, 2026
Kristin Logan: “At the time that I left Canada… I was dying.”
“The medical care I’ve gotten has been outstanding.”
“They told me three years ago that I wouldn’t make it two years. I’m still here.” pic.twitter.com/gjtCfhnMov
Abuse Becomes Harder to Admit as Death Toll Grows
Defenders of the system insist that disturbing cases do not represent the “average MAiD” death.
However, the horror stories continue emerging.
Commentator Yuan Yi Zhu warned that societies become increasingly unwilling to confront abuse once euthanasia becomes normalized, and more families are personally connected to it.
“As euthanasia is responsible for more and more deaths, societies become increasingly resistant to admitting abuses that occur in relation to its administration, since doing so would disturb the peace of mind of too many people who had relatives die in that manner,” Zhu said.
As euthanasia is responsible for more and more deaths, societies become increasingly resistant to admitting abuses that occur in relation to its administration, since doing so would disturb the peace of mind of too many people who had relatives die in that manner.
— Yuan Yi Zhu (@yuanyi_z) September 22, 2026
Canada’s euthanasia regime is no longer a limited exception reserved for extraordinarily rare cases.
It has become a system responsible for tens of thousands of deaths, and in 2024, it ended more lives than all firearm homicides across the United States combined.
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