Euthanasia is becoming a substitute for actual care in Canada. Earlier this month, cancer patient Dan Quayle was euthanized after being unable to obtain an oncologist to treat his condition. We’ve seen the same paradigm with people with disabilities unable to access prompt supportive services.

Now, a 67-year-old grandmother, Samia Saikali, opted for a lethal jab after waiting ten weeks to see an oncologist for her aggressive cancer.

[The socialized medical system in Canada just saved themselves a lot of money by neglecting Saikali long enough for her to opt for assisted suicide. Wesley and I have discussed this issue on a number of occasions, both here and on Relevant Radio. Legal euthanasia is bad enough, as it transforms from an option into a social expectation at some point, but combined with a single-payer health care system, it becomes an industrialized death machine. All of the incentives in such a system run toward pressuring patients into choosing suicide, and we have already seen examples of Canadian providers applying such pressure. But it becomes even easier to just delay treatment long enough that patients simply run out of time and options. — Ed]