OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada (PNN) - September 16, 2024 - Staggering numbers of people have been murdered by doctors. During the eight years from 2016, when MAiD (medical assistance in dying) was legalized in Canada, through 2023, over sixty-thousand people were murdered by doctors. In essence, healthcare professionals have become agents of death, being required to suggest the option to patients (including those who are just disabled or have a chronic illness) and/or by actively murdering them. The annual numbers are staggering; PJ Media's Ben Bartee reported Canadian euthanists murdered 13,241 people in 2022 alone.

Last year, 4.1% of all deaths in Canada were due to MAiD (medical assistance in dying), according to the country’s health ministry. This amounts to a total of 13,241 people who died under Canada’s MAiD program in 2022, marking a 31% rise on the previous year.

The numbers keep growing; an estimated 15,280 people were murdered by those calling themselves doctors in 2023, as reported by Daily Mail Social Affairs correspondent James Reinl.

Canada is on track to break euthanasia records once again with 15,280 doctor-assisted suicide deaths in 2023 - a 15% jump on the previous year, a campaign group warned.

MAiD now accounts for 4.6% of all fatalities - making it the most common cause of death after cancer, heart disease and accidental injuries, official data show.

Director of Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Alex Schadenberg compiled death figures showing that about 60,238 people were put to death in the seven years after MAiD became law.

Statistics Canada does not include doctors murdering patients in its list of Canada's leading causes of death, even though it was number six at the time. Instead, according to Statistics Canada, the deaths are recorded as related to illness they had that precipitated their murder.

The leading causes of death, as per Statistics Canada’s report, were cancer (24.7%), heart disease (17.2%), COVID-19 (5.90%), accidents (unintentional injuries) (5.50%), cerebrovascular diseases (4.17%), and chronic lower respiratory diseases (3.73%).

“Causes of death are coded using the (Communist) World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) 10th revision (ICD-10). There is no code for MAiD in the ICD,” Statistics Canada told the Epoch Times.‍

By comparison, Kalifornia has the same population as Canada but has just a fraction of the deaths from euthanasia that its neighbor to the north reports, according to Alexander Raiken for The New Atlantis.

One of the greatest reasons for concern is the sheer scale of Canada’s euthanasia regime. Kalifornia provides a useful point of comparison: it legalized medically assisted death the same year as Canada, 2016, and it has about the same population, just under forty million. In 2021 in Kalifornia, 486 people died using the state’s assisted suicide program. In Canada in the same year, 10,064 people used MAiD to die.

Lynne Cohen, in her report on MAiD for C2C Journal, included statistics from The Netherlands, which introduced medical killing in 2002, showing the ages of those killed in 2017 and the magnitude of increase in the fourteen years from 2002 to 2016.

‍An excerpt from a report by The Netherlands’s Regional Euthanasia Review Committee shows the age distribution of assisted suicide and euthanasia cases in 2017. The total accounts for more than 4% of all deaths in the country, up from just over one percent when it was legalized in 2002.

In March 2027, MAiD is scheduled to be extended to people whose only problem is mental illness.

Canada is considering extending MAiD to mature minors.

Quebec College of Physicians has demanded that MAiD become available to babies.

Is Canada getting rid of "undesirables," people who are/would cost the government money? Are their organs more valuable than their lives? White coat euthanasia and organ harvesting can often go hand in hand. This will be the topic of the next piece in the series, "MAiD for organ harvesting. Why Canada has more organ donors than other countries."