Article By Frank Bergman
Insiders of the Canadian government’s euthanasia regime are warning that the so-called “assisted suicide” program is “no longer optional” as vulnerable citizens increasingly become targets.
Two psychiatrists who helped implement Canada’s euthanasia program are warning that the system is no longer treating assisted dying as a last resort.
The insiders revealed that patients are being approved for death who should not qualify.
University of Toronto professors Madeline Li and Gary Rodin recently raised the alarm in The New York Times.
Li and Rodin were central to building Canada’s MAiD system from the ground up at the University Health Network (UHN) and were among the first clinicians in Canada to build and run a hospital-based MAID program.
However, they are now sounding the alarm over how the law is being expanded by the globalist government.
They describe a rapidly expanding system that gives vulnerable patients too little opportunity to reconsider an irreversible decision.
In many cases, people are being railroaded into euthanasia to avoid long-term care under the nation’s socialized healthcare system.
“Too many people are receiving the procedure without the opportunity for careful reflection about it with a health provider,” Li and Rodin wrote.
“In some cases, patients are being approved who should not be.”
Their warning comes from inside the system: both have assessed patients seeking Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD).
Insiders Warn System Has Become Too Permissive
Canada introduced MAiD in 2016 and subsequently expanded access beyond patients facing terminal illness.
Li and Rodin described a system whose broad interpretation of suffering has helped drive extraordinary growth.
“Today, Canada’s system is one of the most permissive in the world, allowing assisted dying for almost any form of subjectively intolerable suffering that has a medical basis, or even for medically unexplained physical symptoms,” Li and Rodin wrote.
“This latitude may contribute to Canada having the fastest growth rate of assisted dying in the world, increasing 16-fold in the eight years since legalisation.”
The Christian Institute, which highlighted their article, reported that the psychiatrists believe assisted dying “is no longer an option of last resort.”
That assessment strikes at a central justification for euthanasia: that death would be offered only after meaningful alternatives had been exhausted.
Doctors Focus on Eligibility Instead of Whether Death Is Appropriate
Li and Rodin warned that many doctors “have come to see their primary role to be making sure their patients meet the legal eligibility requirements to qualify for assisted dying.”
They argued that attention has shifted toward “whether patients can get an assisted death and not enough on whether they should.”
The distinction is profound. Checking eligibility does not resolve whether a patient’s suffering could be relieved through treatment, counseling, or support.
Their warning describes a system in which approval can move ahead without enough examination of the circumstances driving someone to seek death.
Woman Approved After Losing Ability to Cook Chose to Live
The psychiatrists illustrated the danger through the case of a woman in her 70s who sought and received approval for assisted dying after losing the ability to cook.
Counseling helped her reconsider what she meant to her family.
“Through counseling, she came to understand that her family valued who she was, not what she did for them,” Li and Rodin explained.
“She decided not to go through with ending her life, at least for now.
“That Christmas, her family gathered and she sat proudly at the table, while others did the cooking and serving”
Her experience exposes the stakes behind their criticism: a woman approved for death instead found a reason to continue living when someone addressed the loss of purpose behind her request.
Patients Euthanized While Begging to Live
Another recent case drew widespread controversy when a woman was euthanized against her will.
The devastated family of an 83-year-old Ontario woman revealed that the Canadian government gave the Christian grandmother a lethal injection while she prayed, cried for help, and begged doctors to spare her life.
Brigitte Stegemann’s family says she was euthanized despite allegedly breaking down in tears and declaring: “I don’t want the death shot!”
Stegemann was killed with a lethal injection under Canada’s taxpayer-funded MAiD program on July 10 at The Pearl care home in Cannifton, Ontario.
Her granddaughter and longtime caregiver, Brigitte Kranendonk, has revealed that Stegemann was confused, failed a cognitive assessment, and never clearly consented to being killed on the morning of the procedure.
In fact, Kranendonk says her grandmother begged doctors to let her live.
Two days before the scheduled procedure, Kranendonk said she confronted her grandmother in explicit terms.
“Do you know that you’re going to die on Friday?” she asked.
Stegemann reportedly broke down and cried for 45 minutes.
Kranendonk said she repeatedly reassured her grandmother that she could refuse.
“The doctors are coming on Friday, and you just say no,” she recalled pleading.
Kranendonk says her grandmother was so upset by the thought of being euthanized that “she was bawling. Inconsolable.”
Two days later, the doctor allegedly told her she was there to administer “medicine” and asked whether that was acceptable.
However, the 83-year-old refused, screaming: “I don’t want the death shot!”
Stegemann was pronounced dead within 10 minutes.
Belleville Police confirmed that the case remains under investigation.
“This incident is currently open and under investigation with our Criminal Investigations Division,” a police spokesman said.
Death Before Care
The warning from two doctors who helped implement MAiD is unmistakable.
A system increasingly focused on qualifying patients for death risks overlooking the care that could help them choose life.
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