#Canadian eugenics

[enbycrip]

Another enormous and ongoing factor in “Canada is not a human rights paradise”; MAiD.

Canada legalised “medically assisted death” and what literally every disability rights group said would happen immediately proceeded to happen; they started offering it instead of care to disabled people.

Far from being limited to terminally ill people in intense pain, which is what they spoke about when pushing the policy, it’s now routinely offered to disabled and chronically ill people who are suffering *because they are living in poverty* and *unable to access the pretty basic care and assistance that would be needed for a decent quality of life.” They are currently expanding the programme to include mentally ill people because of course they are.

I know disabled and chronically ill Canadians who are living in tremendous poverty - like, crowdfunding food and heating in *Canadian winters* poverty - who speak continuously about the fact that every time they seek any form of government or public assistance, all they get is offered “assisted suicide.”

There is literally no way this is anything other than eugenicist genocide of disabled people. And no one seems to give a shit other than disabled people, because abled people *continuously* seem to believe that death is preferable to disability. They continuously and massively overestimate the suffering involved in, say, incontinence.

[liminalweirdo]

In today's update of Canada Loves Eugenics, 10,064 people died in 2021 through medically assisted death in Canada, and while MAID supposedly exists to allow people with severe, incurable illnesses to die with dignity on their own terms, MAID is generally used because disabled and mentally ill people cannot access governmental assistance and are living in poverty.

The Canadian government is actively pushing poor, disabled people to death.

oh and by the way, Canada performs more organ transplants from MAID donors than any other country in the world.

"Six disability rights and religious advocates told Reuters that the pace of the planned changes to the assisted death framework in Canada brings additional risks of people opting for MAID because they are unable to access social services - the lack of which could exacerbate their suffering." - source

Anyway, it's basically like this: the USA has the Americans with Disabilities Act and Canada has MAID

[haveyouseenthisseries-poll]

[oldshowbiz]

1972.

A member of the Sugar Shoppe lands the lead in Godspell with supporting players Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner, and Martin Short.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Jacquie Holyoak is considering accessing medical assistance in dying (MAID) due to the debilitating pain of living with fibromyalgia. But she says it's a choice she might not even contemplate if her disability benefits didn't leave her struggling to make ends meet.

"I'm just really exhausted ... I need someone to help me, and I've been asking everywhere. And unless you have money, you're just not going to get the help," said Holyoak, who lives in Fergus, Ont.

The former medical assistant is on the Ontario Disability Support Program [ODSP], but says it's not enough to live off.

"If I wasn't on ODSP, would I be seeking MAID? I don't know that answer, but I'm leaning towards no, because my quality of life would be so much better," she told The Current's Matt Galloway.

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[dadsinsuits]

Eugene Levy

[wanderingmind867]

I think SCTV actually was very progressive. They did so jokes about things like lesbianism or sexuality, but it was never made out to be a big deal. Like in one of the Mel's Rock Piles in Season 2, I believe Dave Thomas and John Candy danced with each other on the show. And the joke wasn't about that, the joke was more just how awkward Mel was with addressing it. That's quite progressive for the late 70s and early 80s, in my opinion. I'll admit I have doubts as to if SNL could ever have pulled that off. They don't seem that progressive to me. SCTV was just better in every way.

[emily-mooon]

We're seriously almost the same person omg

Omg we are.

[factoidfactory]

Random Fact #6,575

One third of Canadians are fine with prescribing assisted suicide for people solely due to homelessness or poverty.

Reminder that assisted suicide is legal in Canada so this isn't a stretch of "that'd never happen".

[enbycrip]

I think about this episode all the time.

Especially every time “screening for autism” comes up. Every time another country starts pushing every pregnant person to abort any foetus with Down’s Syndrome.

Who the fuck are they to say that this part of human diversity shouldn’t be here? That disabled lives shouldn’t exist?

And of course I think about MAiD in Canada, where they legalised assisted suicide with the promise of it being a human right for terminally ill people in terrible pain - and then massively cut every disability benefit, made them increasingly difficult to apply for, and started expanding which disabled and chronically ill people could “apply” for it. They’re currently shoving it through through their legislative body as legal for mental illness. Massive numbers of disabled people have “applied for it” when they can’t take years of hunger and losing even very inadequate housing and every bit of assistance they try to claim only pushes “well the government can kill you painlessly really quickly”.

And of course in the UK, where I live, where every day people complete suicide all by themselves after losing yet another fight with a benefits system that the UN has repeatedly criticised as deeply unfit for purpose.

Who the fuck gave any of those people, those systems, the right to say that *we* don’t deserve to be here?

[auressea]

#ShowMeTheMoney 

#BudgetTheBenefit

Why the Canada Disability Benefit Matters:

People with disabilities in Canada are twice as likely to live in poverty than those without a disability.

Persons with a disability make up 41 per cent of the low‑income population in Canada.

People with disabilities are three times more likely to experience food insecurity

Our Demands

Bill C-22 for a Canada Disability Benefit needs to be passed into law this Spring 2023.

People with disabilities must be engaged in designing the benefit and implementing it in their province.

The Canada Disability Benefit must be Budgeted in 2023 and be adequate enough to lift people with disabilities out of poverty.

@allthecanadianpolitics

[liminalweirdo]

"This is a man who can spend a billion dollars to bring alcohol into convenience stores one year early, but when faced with a crisis in health care, can suggest only that people turn to the vet."

this in the "we will happily euthanize you if you’re poor" country, where it takes 10 years to find a doctor, and where many die in the ER waiting room or on the waitlist for treatment.

[haveyouseenthisseries-poll]

[oldshowbiz]

The short-lived SCTV Diner operated for exactly one year - September 1981 until September 1982.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Sathya Dhara Kovac, 44, chose to die this week, even though she didn't want to go just yet.

The Winnipeg woman's death was facilitated by professionals through Manitoba's medical assistance in dying program.

Kovac lived with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a degenerative disease that took her mother, grandmother and uncle. Her condition was worsening, but she felt she had more life to live — just not enough home care support to do so.

"Ultimately it was not a genetic disease that took me out, it was a system," Kovac wrote in an obituary to loved ones.

"There is desperate need for change. That is the sickness that causes so much suffering. Vulnerable people need help to survive. I could have had more time if I had more help."

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[dadsinsuits]

Eugene Levy