More than we imagined? Unresolved tensions and the current state of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia in Canada

Carter v. Canada (2015) told Canadians that ending a patient’s life is lawful and warranted, in specific situations with proper safeguards. Given Canada’s single-payer approach to health care, MAiD seems to present an unavoidable conflict of interest for government. Dying with Dignity, the largest MAiD lobbyist group in Canada, promotes surveys that suggest 80 percent support for MAiD in Canada (Dying with Dignity Canada 2022). Will clinicians find a way to function as though, for the vast majority of care, MAiD does not exist? “In Canada, MAID has become a matter of ideology.” Globe and Mail, February 25.