Canada’s euthanasia crisis has now reached inside federal prisons, with new statistics revealing that the government has now begun euthanizing prisoners under the nation’s state-sanctioned “assisted suicide” program.
The new data revealed that at least 15 federal prison inmates were euthanized under Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) scheme since 2018.
The information comes from an Order Paper response showing that Correctional Service Canada approved MAiD deaths for inmates before their sentences were completed.
The finding is raising serious questions about coercion, oversight, and the rapid normalization of euthanasia inside government institutions.
The numbers show a grim escalation, revealing that inmated has been euthanized every year since the expansion emerged in 2018.
The documents leave out key details, including the identities of the inmates, the prisons where the deaths occurred, or whether the individuals were male or female.
The government also refused to clarify whether each case fell under Track 1 MAiD (terminal or serious illness) or Track 2.
Track 2 is the far more controversial category permitting euthanasia even when natural death is not foreseeable, in situations such as depression or poverty.
What is clear is that since legalization, 67 federal inmates have applied for MAiD, with requests rising sharply in the past two years.
Canada’s euthanasia program, introduced in 2016 under former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, has expanded at a pace unmatched anywhere in the world.
According to a new report from the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, Canada has euthanized 90,000 people since 2016.
The number is a staggering figure for a country of only 40 million people.
Advocacy groups have pushed aggressively for even more expansion, including extending euthanasia to minors.
A Conservative MP’s recent private member’s bill, which would ban MAiD for those suffering solely from mental illness, received full backing from the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition.
The bill stands in direct opposition to the long-running effort by Canada’s ruling Liberal Party government to expand MAiD to people with mental illness alone.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government appears committed to maintaining that trajectory.
However, after overwhelming pushback from medical groups, mental health experts, pro-life advocates, disability-rights organizations, and the majority of Canadian provinces, Ottawa temporarily delayed the mental-illness expansion until 2027.
Even so, the trend is unmistakable as MAiD is rapidly becoming a default “solution” for suffering, poverty, disability, and now incarceration.
What was once billed as a compassionate option for the terminally ill has morphed into a system where vulnerable Canadians, including prisoners, are dying by state-sanctioned lethal injection in ever-growing numbers.
And with no transparency, no demographic data, and no clarity on how these decisions were made behind prison walls, critics warn that Canada’s euthanasia program is entering a new, darker phase.
More reporting is expected as watchdogs demand accountability.
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