Installment 4 – Justin Trudeau forces the Liberal Party to adopt euthanasia as party platform in 2013/2014
By Roger Foley and Stephen Pate – From quietly discussing neo-natal euthanasia in France and strategizing how to get euthanasia legislation passed, Justin Trudeau pulled out the stops in 2013 to bring assisted death front and centre with the Liberal Party and, ultimately, the Canadian public.
In April 2013, Justin Trudeau was elected leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. There was no discussion of doctor-assisted suicide, dying with dignity or euthanasia in his platform.
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in June 2013, Trudeau Fellow Daniel Weinstock wrote a Trudeau Foundation position paper titled “So, Are You Still a Philosopher?” Weinstock argues for euthanasia on demand for anyone at any time, which is Pierre Trudeau’s dream. Weinstock accuses his readers of being anti-intellectual if they disagree with him. The paper was shared with Foundation Scholars, Fellows and Mentors, getting the team onside.
“I may think, because I am committed to the principle of individual autonomy, that people ought to be allowed to seek physician-assisted death in a wide range of cases, and not merely when they are already at death’s door or in the grips of unrelievable somatic suffering.” (Trudeau Foundation Papers 2013, page 124)
December 2013 – Foundation asserts right to medically assisted death.
A second Trudeau Foundation position paper in December 2013 by Tim Brodhead, Interim Foundation President /CEO, reaffirmed the need to advocate for Assisted Dying legalization.”In his article, Daniel Weinstock explores the contribution the philosopher can make to reconciling less violent but firmly held divergent opinions on current and controversial matters, including the right to medically assisted death.” “Why We Need Public Intellectuals,”
February 2014 – Trudeau stacks the deck as the Liberal Party adopts the legalization of assisted suicide
The liberal party delegates in February 2014 passed a motion to legalize assisted suicide if they ever form a government by a show of hands. Justin Trudeau goes into hiding during the parties’ vote on it.
There was stiff resistance to the motion by the 35 elected Liberals in the meeting, but 522 Trudeau loyalists stacked the meeting while Justin said out of sight for the vote. He could ostensibly say he was neutral. Trudeau skips out as Liberal conventioneers vote to legalize assisted suicide
“I have great difficulty with it. I’m very uncomfortable with it,” Toronto MP Judy Sgro said in an interview.
Toronto MP John McKay said the convention debate on the issue was superficial and didn’t get into alternatives to assisted suicide or the “downsides” of legalizing it.
“Canada has to come to grips with its culture of death, and it’s particularly exemplified here,” he said in an interview, noting Liberals adopted an explicitly pro-choice policy on abortion at their last convention.
“They’re very enthusiastic about end-of-life legislation. They’re very enthusiastic about end-of-life legislation for the beginning of life. I don’t think there’s a lot of care given to particularly vulnerable people.” CTV News
A delegate who described himself as an anesthesiologist called it “horrifying” that he could be paid through provincial health plans to end a patient’s life. “We have enough trouble trying not to harm people who are having treatments right now. We don’t need to get into the business of doing it deliberately.”
The doctor delegate argued the focus should be on palliative care and how to ease end-of-life suffering rather than ending life. CTV News
This was a big change in the Liberal Party’s position on assisted suicide. In 2010 the Liberal MPs voted against it in the House of Commons. In this strange convention vote, the 35 Liberal MPs didn’t have much of a say in the Party Membership’s position change.
February 2015 – Justin Trudeau admits he has always wanted to legalize assisted suicide.
Until 2014, Justin Trudeau hid his goal to legalize assisted suicide. In the first episode, Exposé Pierre Trudeau Driving Justin Trudeau’s Assisted Dying, we covered this.
On February 6, 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that doctor-assisted suicide was legal when adults who are “mentally competent and suffering intolerably and enduringly” chose. Carter v Canada.
This was the moment Justin Trudeau was ready for. His father, Pierre Trudeau, wanted to avoid any of the unpleasant aspects of death and charged Justin and his brother to legalize assisted suicide. After Carter, Justin was ready to tell his story to CBC Radio.
Justin Trudeau told the same story to Parliament about how his Father, Pierre Trudeau, shaped his “strong opinion” on Assisted Dying.
“I have a strong opinion. It is based on my personal experience when I sat by my Father in his final moments of life. I know that we must respect personal freedoms and choice while ensuring as a society that the most vulnerable among us are protected.”
The cat was out of the bag, and Justin Trudeau was lining up his ducks to get assisted dying for everyone on the law books, not just the dying.
Justin Trudeau moves to consolidate his assisted- death position
On February 25th, 2015, Justin announced that anyone with any pro-life views was banned from running as a new Liberal. Justin Trudeau states, “I have made it clear that future candidates need to be completely understanding that they will be expected to vote pro-choice on any bills. The existing MPs who have been grandfathered in, to a certain extent, will be respected, to a certain extent, in their choices. But our position as a party is we do not open that debate.”
October 2015 – Jocelyn Downey gets $225,000 grant to promote assisted dying
It wasn’t enough for Justin Trudeau to enjoy Carter v Canada where the patient had to be near death, lucid and experiencing intolerable pain. Trudeau wanted universal assisted death.
Later that year, Jocelyn Downie received a prestigious Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Fellowship for $225,000 to research end-of-life care for Canadians. Downie had been a pro-bono member of the Carter team, and it paid off. This is a typical Trudeau strategy as the Foundation has been grooming 100s of Scholars, Fellows and Mentors for years to convince Canadians they need assisted suicide.
“My project starts with the assumption that we are all committed to building a Canada that cares deeply and effectively for the dying. A Canada that doesn’t accept people dying in pain. A Canada that doesn’t accept people trapped in bodies that only support lives that, for them, no longer have meaning. A Canada that says ‘we can, and must, do better.'”
After her Fellowship award, Downie published numerous papers discussing but always advocating doctor-assisted suicide in the end. She was on the Trudeau payroll.
On November 4, 2015. Justin Trudeau was elected Prime Minister of Canada. He was about to turn up the heat on his universal doctor-assisted suicide campaign.
Next – Prime Minister Trudeau expands on doctor-assisted suicide for Canadians.
The author – Roger Foley, is one of 6 million Canadians living with disabilities. Roger Foley has been featured in The Washington Post Canada, plunging toward a human rights disaster for disabled people and Macleans Magazine -Taking MAiD way too far. “Roger Foley released audio recordings of hospital staff offering him MAiD and outlining the costs of keeping him in the hospital in response to his expressed wishes to live at home with support.”
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