How poverty, not pain, is driving some disabled Canadians towards medically assisted death 

I'm totally ashamed of Canada.

Hitler would be so proud of the Canadian govt. What a compassionate way to rid society of its undesirables.

The fact they set the disability compensation purposely below the poverty line is very sad and makes me mad!!!

I am 21, disabled, I am about to be homeless soon, as I cannot find a place and BC housing wait is 2-5 years. I am scared for my future, being disabled has made it nearly impossible to live as it limits what you can do in so many ways legally. I don’t have family who can support me. Edit- 8 months later, doing so much better. Found housing, worked my a** off to get it and keep it. Got part-time work and am working super hard at achieving all my goals and dreams! :) I figured it out, it was brutal, but I did it yee haw! C: Just gotta put the brains and work in

Before: “Suicide is never the answer!” Now: *or is it?*

My understanding is that an inmate in Ontario costs taxpayers around $150,000 per year. Someone on disability in Ontario gets $15,000 a year. So in Ontario a disabled person is worth 1/10th of 1 inmate. Just think about that for a moment.

I think no Canadian should be living in poverty but disabled people especially should have supports to keep them above the poverty line.

I didn't realize how evil the Canadian government is. Heartbreaking.

Yup, give a bunch of teenagers 2,000 a month in CERB but can't put that money out for people with disabilities.

This is one of the reasons why disability should be raised to $2000 a month.

I receive disability in BC. If I didn't live with family I would be dead or homeless. I wouldn't wish this life on anyone. It's sickening how the government would rather us die then give us enough to live a healthy life.

I am on Ontario Disability after a work place accident years ago. Workers Compensation closed my file after found a job but I was unable to sustain it. Ontario disability won't cover physiotherapy to help me with the chronic pain and weakness I have. It's not part of the program. Can you believe there are no benefits to provide physical therapy to people with physical disabilities? Our system only values people who can earn money for the rich. If you are old or disabled you have no value. It's harsh, but it's true. That is capitalism.

People that abuse disability should be a shamed for their laziness. But This is Like the Nazi Gas Chambers, but more humane I guess. Its absolutely disgusting.

I don’t think he should feel bad about receiving support by viewers. That’s what community should do.

This is so sad … increasing disability benefits would help ! Instead of having the disabled wanting to die ?! So. So . Sad 😞

Klaus Schwab said 4 billion "useless eaters" have got to go. Turdo seems to have no problem with that idea.

Should be CRIMINAL to treat disabled people like they do. Disabled seniors, particularly women are the fastest growing group of Homeless people in Metro Vancouver. I am a disabled 75 yr old, pay $1550 a mo for a basement suite because I was evicted twice during Covid because landlord's sold and new owners wanted the use of the suite. I have so little money, hearing aids and a wheelchair are not even an option. I have repeatedly been told to get a job -- and I can barely cope with my pain without working. Yes they WANT people to die. The Feds give a $500 a month Disability Rebate BUT you have to have about a $40,000 to get it....SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THAT PICTURE...if you are REALLY DISABLED you aren't EARNING money. My friend has a solution....have a protest of 1000 topless 80+ year old women -- they won't want to see it again and they may smarten up!!!!

The news doesn’t usually effect me much. I’m pretty desensitized. But something about this story is really bothering me and breaking my heart.

I'm so tired. Just tired of all of this. This world is sick and I see why anyone would want out. I do too.

I can definitely confirm. I am one of these people. And I honestly believe this is situational design, not circumstance.

Tax the churches and use that money to pay people with disabilities 3x what they’re getting.

This is totally unacceptable 😤 and everyone should share this. This world is growing darker everyday. When the world takes hope from the hopeless! Where is love? So sad! SHARE!

Why does baby bonus go up. To 600 bucks and more per child...but poor seniors. Don’t get an increase. ?

The story not being told is the deliberate refusal of applications for basic treatment and services by government to their citizens. Then denying appeals without just cause. Supported by their politically appointed Officers of Parliament. A wilful way by those in power to force Canadians into these regrettable circumstances. The BC Premier and Canadian PM should be ashamed, but they apparently aren't capable of empathy. Yes, there is a name for their condition.

I live with a disability if it wasn't for my mom I would be homeless the government needs to wake the f up.and help seniors and the disabled now!! I have no idea what will happen to me once my mom passes and I can't afford housing or food it's so depressing to know the only hope for me and others is death 😢😭

Instead of helping them to live, they are helping th to die? Wow

This is the best solution our government has for our health care system sickening!!!

I didn't think it was so widespread. I went to my doctor in January to ask for help with assisted suicide. Chronic pain is so difficult, adding abject poverty is just too much. I too had a normal life. Worked hard. Now my worries are constantly food and bills. I don't drink or do drugs. I live simply, I don't ask for much. Is it too much to want to have a stable environment and fresh vegetables? edit: I am in B.C.

My heart breaks for everyone. I hope for our world to change

As a species we have failed

I wish we could see a better future with stronger communities. I'm sorry its like this, generations and the planet need us all to make it fairer and kinder no one chooses to suffer. ❤

Damn that’s sad and the fking gouvernement do nothing for them 😡😡😡

Our Government is SICK!!

I wish we had people in charge who actually cared about Canadians & our country. Instead of identity politics & division.

Another thing, where are these people's families? Help your own. Stop discarding family members when they get sick and poor. We’ve got family members living in large homes and a sister or brother is living on the streets. It disgusts me. Someone is gorging on a big juicy steak while their mother or father is living in a run-down room with no money for food. Whoever leaves a blood relative to die is morally bankrupt. Take care of your family and extended family. This is the centre of the problem. People not helping each other.

I have been on CPP Disability for many years. I receive $799.00 per month. Thankfully my husband is still working and we are surviving. If anything happens to him, I wouldn't be able to live. I often think about what I would do if anything happened to him. I would be alone, unable to care for myself and destitute. At that point, my death would be a blessing. I pray that I die first. Canada is an amazing country and assisted suicide for those at the end of life who are living in agony deserve a humane option. We wouldn't let an animal suffer and not euthanize it. However, when the government offers to kill you because the services you need to help you aren't there, compounded by one's inability to pay for them privately, offers suicide as a solution, something is terribly, terribly wrong.

I'm on ODSP it sucks was homeless for three years and every one threw me away

85% of homeless people in US have a disability that precludes them from working. Imagine having chronic pain and trying to live sleeping on the street.

Canada: “My health care is amazing!” Also Canada: “What’s a Hippocratic oath?”

Going from disability to old age is automatic disability! Ridiculous to decrease support.. what on earth happened to the value of people's lives???? This would never happen in a society that honors it's elders!

in BC people with disabilities get $375 a month for rent. $375. In a place where rents cost upwards of $1500/month this is coercion towards death, no matter the circumstance.

The international press has taken note of this policy in Canada, and frowns on it with disapproval. I've seen articles on the Associated Press , the BBC , and the Daily Beast web sites. It is not a glowing report of Canada's treatment of poeple with disabilities, in fact its quite the opposite. Who ever decided that this policy was a human right, was really misinformed. 0_o

I live in the EU. First, I am hearing of this. I'm not sure why this isn't making a bigger impact in the media. This just looks like a form of eugenics, a way to get rid of those who are seen as a financial burden. I have no issue with assisted suicide, if it is due to an incurable disease/condition that is making someone's life unbearable. In these cases, the solutioj is better social security through financial aid. Not MAID. I am shocked that this is happening in Canada and not the USA.

She doesn’t want to die. She’s wearing a mask

This infuriates me.I have been paying taxes for 45 years as I started working at age 15 and that the government cannot find money to increase payments for the disabled or drops a person from disabled to senior benefits,lowering their income.If anything that senior show now be eligible for both.Mps have no problem double dipping getting their mp pensions and then other income too.Or the government has no problem finding money to constantly pour into indigenous people all their lives for this that and another thing yet taxpayers like me if needed have no safety nets if we need them when we are down and out.

Its right in plane sight. They are trying to get rid of the sick and weak in their society's

Poverty and homelessness are a big business and a great money maker. 😢😢😢

Godlessness Canadians will be the death of our humanity and country. Shame to all the hateful and judgmental comments. God bless and R.I.P 🙏 God loves all his children even when his children won't love each other. ❤

Humanity is so hopelessly depraved. We all deserve to die.

poverty is painful mentally, physically and emotionally

Our country discussed this and their solution was to make sure it was impossible for people to access MAD without a terminal illness and only a few months left. Frankly I am disgusted the answer has not been to improve life for those in poverty and living with disability. Not allowed to die, but free to suffer.

This is the kind of stuff that peasant rebellions in times of famine were built on. Personally, if I were in a place where mutually assisted suicide was optimal, I might just self-immolate in front of live cameras and government buildings. Or inconvenience car brains to the degree where they justify running me over. Maybe I shouldn’t speculate at all but seeing no collective action makes this desperate situation even worse.

i am in the exact same position in New Jersey, U.S.A.. It tried to live on one thousand in disability, but it is impossible, even with a subsidy for housing. I was just evicted from my housing because I used Gov. Murphy Covid order which allowed me to use my security deposit for rent. This is my second eviction. I am seriously ill with Lupus and MCTD. I worked as a crisis counselor and have always helped people and animals. I am nearly 70 now and am alone. This is how it's going to end. I have no choice but to terminate myself. I can't be in the cold over the winter and there honestly is no real help. Even the churches give it grudgingly. I will be happy to leave the human race as it is today.

A consequence of social benefits not quite being enough. Problem here is that the government actually benefits financially from these deaths. If there are such deaths shown to be from poverty, then the government must respond by increasing benefits across the board till death due to poverty ceases or at least is below a certain level.

Eugenics and depopulation in action!

Disabled Canadians should sneak into the States and cross back into Canada at Roxham Road for better care and more money.

We need this outrage on the streets in front of your MP’s & MPP’s office’s we need people without disabilities to help us please!!

Very heartbreaking and very angering! I get where there coming from! But no one under any circumstance unless terminally ill, should ever feel that the best option is assisted death, especially due to poverty. @Trudeau @Poiliere @CanadianParliament time to open eyes! We are all are human beings, disability is def not a choice! I just can't wrap my mind around how little our lives means to our global leaders, next there gona start evaluating the mentally ill to see who is eligible to murder, really! Shame 🇨🇦disgusting Shame!

im a single parent and am disabled I have disabled children. my now 20 year old son with autism as living on his own and it kills me because he deserves so much better. my other son is 16 soon and is autistic with other issues trying to figure out who he is and my daughter.. my sweet baby is a pre teen. we are struggling so bad. and we matter. its time the Government sees that. meds are unaffordable. cancer treatment isnt there we get to just die undiagnosed. london Ontario is hell on earth. odsp is a joke.. I cant even afford shoe's for winter...

This is exactly what is wrong in our world...

Cruel and unusual government

I live on ODSP in Ontario and work part time. Can attest to how much the provincial government makes people with disabilities suffer. I have been on it since 1995, back when it was called Family Benefits before the name was changed to ODSP. The program is a total joke, and the provincial government has proven time and time again they believe people with disabilities should be made to suffer and live in poverty. I get $1,228 per month to live on, plus $81 per month extra for Special Diet because I have Type 2 Diabetes. Guess what the Shelter portion of the cheque is? $522 a month! Yes, that's right, that's what Doug Ford expects a single person on ODSP to pay for rent - totally unrealistic! You cannot even rent a room in a family home for that! Most people on ODSP are usually having to take money from the Basic Needs portion of their cheque just to cover rent, because the Shelter portion is too low and unrealistic. The worst part is, if you work you get penalized- about 60-70% of the money you earn is taken off your ODSP cheque! So you can't really get ahead much even by working. And, some of the programs ODSP have are screwed up....ODSP Employment Supports is a perfect example. If you apply for and get it, you get funding to a outside career agency who gets funding to help the client find a job....sounds good, BUT the problem is the career agency is paid AFTER the client has been working for 8 weeks! So what happens is you get some lazy worker who brushes up your resume a little bit, and then they sit back and tell the client to go job hunting all over the place, and then the worker receives the government money while the CLIENT did 80% of the work finding their job without the worker using their connections, or giving the client on the job training to accomodate their disability. Why should a worker get paid to do what I can do by myself by going to a unemployment office, update my resume there and find work by myself?! NO WAY!! Sorry, but a guaranteed income may sound good, but it's NOT the answer! Especially when it would end the additional supports that programs like ODSP and Ontario Works have. What is REALLY NEEDED is REFORM....not only to the amount of funding that is given to clients each month, but how the programs are run. There is a LOT of waste, mismanagement and inefficiency with both these programs in how the programs are administered and run, and how clients are treated. It's about time we get rid of Fatty Ford and elect a government who actually understands and gets it!

It is an impossible situation all over the country. Maid has its benefits but it shouldnt be to escape poverty. Our country is broken and our most vulnerable are being impacted first. I dont know how it can be changed.

Sickens me how Trudeau keeps making more cutbacks,refuses to offer full time increase in wages for the disabled,yet are the 1st to offer them Maid. Its criminal the Direction Canada has taken with Trudeau's Leadership. Trudeau needs to go. A lady in Ontario with a severe Allergy to smoke stuck in a complex that had cigarette smoke traveling through all the ducks. She pleaded with the Government to find her suitable housing. They never helped her,so she ended her life with Maid this year. Its sick.

An Ontario woman chose to be euthanized because her family could not visit her during lockdowns. Her family was allowed to visit her while she was being euthanized though. And the family were happy with that, which is a horrifying example of how far gone Canadians are. They couldn't go see her because she might die of covid but they could go see her be killed.

This is crazy, I want to know who has to pay for those funeral services when these people seemingly have no more choices but to die. Funerals are not cheap. That money could better go to help those when still alive. May God help us all.

Blame governments in the USA and Canada, allowing CEO to not raise minimum wages. This is the aftermath.

This video is mindblowing. I am disabled and waiting for disability benefits. I live in subsidized housing like this woman. She is living on twice the income that I do. I am very poor with serious disabilities. Medically assisted suicide due to finances is absolutely nuts!!! I'm flabbergasted.

I have a disability, but I can’t imagine wanting medically assisted death. If I did that, my family would lose someone they love. My choir would be losing a tenor. The rest of my significant others would be negatively affected. I’m too young to die. I want to live to the fullest and continue to fight for disability rights.

I’m on disability at 24 the poverty is awful for us with disabilities you can’t live off 1300 and have a wonderful life

Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figour that one out.... you don't have enough money to pay for the basics you get really depressed and feel hopeless. Been there and done that, and it's hard to mentally and financially come back from that.

Canada is broken. If you do not own a home you are not getting ahead. The average canadian is struggling For Goodness sakes Hamilton is more expensive then LA, Hamilton!. It pains my heart to know the Canada we ALL grew up in is GONE. I'm Making my expat plans And I advise you all to do the same

Please how can I send money to her??? How can I reach out to her??? I need to know please. I am so angry at the Canadian government. This practice is evil

Dying is much easier than living decently in this country 😔😔😔

I’m in the same position in America. I am stuck in a never ending cycle of poverty and pain. Hopelessness. I have cried out for help so many many many times and it will just never come. And this government does nothing to help. When I get a leg up, I was tboned bye another car. I lost my vehicle. Then the state took my liscence and told me I had to carry a special insurance that I cannot afford. I live off $600 in North port fl, where people that do not make more than $135,000 a year can afford to live. I can’t feed myself. I am diabetic so I can only afford the cheapest food and it’s all carbs so I’m constantly sick. I have NO FAMILY THAT WILL HELP ME. I CANNOT feed my dogs. I don’t know how I’m ever going to get a vehicle on the road. I don’t want to live like this anymore. I can’t. I haven’t smiled in a decade. I am fighting a loosing battle and all I want is to not be alone. But here I am, 3 am, in a pitch black room, hungry, in pain, w swollen legs from diabetes, and I’m only 36. Alone, w only the thoughts of being happy again. Everytime I go to sleep I see everything I long for. Love, happiness, family, prosperity. But then I wake back up in this war zone. My house is totally destroyed by hurricane Ian and it’s been 6 months w no help from fema, or the government. Or from governor desantis. I don’t even have a $1 to get clean water. It’s been 3 weeks w no clean water. I just want this to end. I’m not looking for sympathy. Maybe a little understanding of what happens when you allow 35 people in the US ( that’s 35 of the richest men in the USA) to own more wealth then 4,000,000,000 ( That’s billion) across the world. Could u imagine a world where 35 people outweigh the needs of 4,000,000,000 billion? Is that a world anyone wants to live in? It’ll never change

I hear you. I have been disabled for years. This is the truth in Canada. This is legislated poverty. We are dying here, needlessly, for a long time.

Absolutely disgusting.

Crazy, they only allow us $636 to survive off of in New Brunswick yet ''Higgs' is in surplus. $705 is misleading/false reporting, try talking to the people whom are most affected. Most New Brunswickers who should be fully granted a full Disability Amount, at best get granted the 'Extended Needs Benefits' designation as a cost saving measure, which leaves us at no more that $636 per Month. Top that off with the rental situation, I've currently been on the waiting list for subsidized housing since the summer of 2009 when I was first diagnosed. At the time I was renting a Bachelor Apartment for $365 per month, I was forced out by the Landlord as I am on a fixed income. That same unit is now Renting at $800. Top that off with butchers like Seville or K2, the bigger the Landlord/Company the more corrupt the Management. The Office of the Rentalsman is a joke, Service NB has no training, want or ability to handle Rentalsman Issues. But if you somehow do get a chance to actually speak with someone, with first hand knowledge, I've painfully learned how corrupt their 'Higher Ups' truly are. Oh Canada, we stand on guard for thee to assist us with ending our lives as we remain ignored and financially unviable to be aloud to lead a live worth living... Thanks Cantada, you make us proud.

legal actions really should be taken against government for being so nonchalant about peoples lives....this is outragious.

I’m a shamed of being Canadian. This is heartbreaking 💔 look at how elite government people going on vacations with these poor money. Shame on Trudeau

It's insane to see Futurama killing booth alive in real time.

This is hands down one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen. The people need to make a stand, not the government. But the People need to make a stand fight once and for all for what people who can't fight need. The fact that this even exists as a program, outside of people within palliative care, should display the true morality within our government.

Called the Canadian suicide hotline and the operator gave me tips on tying a noose smh

Let's all guess the number of months until they expand it to include "those who cannot afford a baseline of rent". I'll say 19

This is immoral and tragic

As a disabled Canadian, I don't feel there is a choice. Governments talk fed or provincial never the poverty inflicted on ALL levels. Currently I am forced to live in squalor or go homeless living in Ontario. Rents are easy $1200./mth, my pittance is $1228. The wait for affordable housing is at least 10 yrs. The decades of mental abuse caused by legislated poverty make it clear to me, Canadians are NOT compassionate, disabled are not equal or even worthy of life. We have been provided only death, we will be punished until we make that choice. The governments of Canada ignored the United Nations plea to stop the abuse by poverty on disabled BEFORE COVID ever started. Canadian governments have ignored the disabled to death since. Oh Canada, my deadly native land.

Saying that disabled people are a burden to society is ableist.

China must bring up this issue in the next human rights meeting at UN and demand Canada to start respecting human rights and cease all kinds of discriminations

1:50 Bruh her daughters disabled... Sending love your way ladies. Stay strong! ❤️

My brother has Asperger's and suffers from Bipolar and depression as an adult. There was a time when he wanted to kill himself. He went to the hospital here in the USA many times asked to die. If this policy was legal here in America he would be dead right now. Instead he has a case worker and is getting the help he needs and is mentally healthy again. God bless everyone. People should always get a second chance. Ending it all is not the answer.

I could write the proverbial book on this. One taboo area that is not talked about nearly enough are the sheer numbers of injured workers forced into poverty when the various provincial Workers Compensation Boards (WCB) routinely deny claims/benefits. Politicians have known about the countless issues about these WCB's for well over a decade and have done nothing. The most disgusting case I read about was a department store manager beaten and shot on the job during a robbery, The WCB put him through a living hell for over 15 years! In my case The WCB denied me more than two thrids of the recomended treatments that their own medical team indicated that I needed to recover from my back injury. That was over a decade ago and my back is messed up to the point where I'm on disability. I firmly believe that the reason why the government is expanding the list of those who would qualify for Medically Assisted Dying, is a means of getting rid of more and more of those with disabilities. The more they get rid of, the less they have to deal with.

I am on ODSP and I understand how this woman feels. I have thought about MAID but I will not leave my two cats behind. But if they were not here, I would choose MAID. ... We shouldn't have to live like this, we already suffer enough. The Government clearly doesn't care about our lives at all. It's painfully obvious.

It's selfishness, greed, and a twisted approach to health that's contributing to these kinds of situations. So many people are in possession of *much more* than they need .. while others suffer for just a little help .. 😔😑🙄

I really, really hate socialized medicine so much after seeing this. Imagine we pay taxes for this.

We are hurdling fast towards capitalist dystopia if we aren’t already there

Now in basic training they are telling those that deploy to "never come back".

Humanity is dying 😢

This is just wrong for 100 different reasons.

Although my country has not legalised euthanasia, this is disconcerting not just for future of humanity but on a personal basis as well. I would like to have some hope for the future... But being poor and having medical problems has constantly made me contemplate jumping out the window... I try my best on the financial side but the health issues can really be a burden. Multiple tumours extracted because of Li-Frameni Syndrome. High blood pressure, essential thrombocytopenia, psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis; has constantly made me feel very lethargic with low energy, constant daily back pain and joint pain, itchy skin, etc, can take its toll. And I am just 40 years old... How bad will things be later? Cancer at the moment is my likely life-taker, can I afford more hospital stays and treatments? I always wondered why I am born and ask God if I am a joke to him.

I have a rare disease and I live in Alberta. The government’s official stance has been that they don’t treat my disease here. I’ve had 6 referrals refused in just the last 2 years. I have EDS/POTS/MCAD. I have to apply and pay for 3 months of non opioid pain relievers to have them covered. However, opioid pain relievers are completely covered….often at way higher doses than I need with no waiting period. None of my non pharmaceutical treatments for pain are covered (Physio, Chiro, massage, ect). I qualify for medically assisted death and know others in my community that have taken that road. We qualify for medically assisted death (it’s free). We do not qualify for medically assisted life.