The Canadian government is expanding the nation’s liberal “assisted suicide” laws to begin euthanizing people for mental illness.
However, conservative politicians are pushing back by attempting to block the Canadian government’s expansion.
A new bill from the Conservative Party of Canada is aiming to slam the brakes on what critics are calling a dystopian descent into state-sponsored death for the mentally ill.
Conservative MP Tamara Jansen has introduced Bill C-218.
The Private Member’s Bill would ban the planned expansion of Canada’s euthanasia laws to those suffering solely from mental illness.
The bill, titled “An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying),” passed its first reading in the House of Commons on June 20, 2025.
Jansen delivered a powerful and chilling warning in Parliament on Friday, laying out the devastating implications of the government’s already-legislated expansion of euthanasia, or “medical assistance in dying” (MAiD).
MAiD will be updated to include those with mental illness, a change scheduled to come into effect in March 2027.
“Imagine your son or daughter battling depression for some time after losing a job, or maybe a broken relationship,” Jansen said.
“Imagine they feel the loss so deep that they’re convinced the world would be better off with them about them.
“Now, imagine this starting in March 2027, under Canadian law, they could walk into a doctor’s office and ask them to end their life.
“And under our law, the system could legally do just,” she added.
“That’s not a future scenario.
“That’s the law right now waiting to take effect,” Jansen explained to Parliament.
“The Liberal government has already had to delay this law twice because why?
“Because medical experts and legal scholars have raised the alarm again and again, saying it’s impossible to implement safely.”
Bill C-218 states plainly: “This enactment amends the Criminal Code to provide that a mental disorder is not a grievous and irremediable medical condition for which a person could receive medical assistance in dying.”
Jansen did not mince words about what the Liberal government is pushing:
“That’s not healthcare, that’s not compassion, it’s abandonment.
“Mental illness is treatable,” she said.
“Recovery is possible, but only if we show up and help.
“Canadians are watching and they need us to stand up for life, for dignity, for hope.”
She continued, “It’s my honor and privilege to rise today and introduce an act to amend the Criminal Code on medical assistance in dying.”
Conservative MPs rallied behind her effort.
“I fully support MP Tamara Jansen’s Bill C-218 to permanently SCRAP the Liberals’ RADICAL AND INHUMANE plan to expand MAID for mental illness,” wrote CPC MP Michael Cooper on X.
“The evidence is OVERWHELMING – this CANNOT be done safely.
“End this MADNESS. Pass the Bill.”
Euthanasia was legalized in Canada in 2016 under the Liberal government of former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
It was initially reserved for the terminally ill to give people an option to die on their own terms.
But by 2021, Trudeau’s government rammed through Bill C-7, expanding eligibility to include those with chronic illnesses.
This update removed the requirement that death be “reasonably foreseeable.”
With that expansion, the stage was set for the next phase: extending euthanasia to the mentally ill.
That change, though already enshrined in law, has been delayed twice following fierce backlash from medical professionals, mental health advocates, pro-life organizations, and even provincial governments.
Still, under current legislation, the expansion is scheduled to become law in 2027.
In May, disturbing documents showed that Health Canada had funded a university project exploring “youth views” on euthanasia.
The project included discussions about whether children with severe autism might one day qualify for state-assisted death.
The Conservative Party has been battling to halt this trajectory, including Bill C-314, which also sought to block the mental illness expansion.
Despite multiple efforts, however, no previous attempt has succeeded in reversing the law.
Jansen’s Bill C-218 is now the most serious legislative challenge yet to the Trudeau-era euthanasia framework.
Canada has already become one of the world’s most prolific users of euthanasia.
In 2022 alone, 13,241 Canadians died by lethal injection under MAiD.
The figure accounts for a staggering 4.1% of all deaths in the country that year and a 31.2% increase from 2021, when the eligibility criteria were first loosened.
Pro-life and faith-based groups across Canada are welcoming Jansen’s bill as a critical first step in preventing what they view as the continued moral collapse of Canadian healthcare.
The question now facing Parliament, and the country, is whether a nation that once pledged to protect the vulnerable will now stand by as they are quietly ushered toward state-sanctioned suicide in the name of “compassion.”
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