MAID increases — Ottawa holds firm

MAID increases — Ottawa holds firm

Read: 5 min The government of Canada has no plans to stop allowing medical assistance in dying (MAID) for people without reasonably foreseeable deaths, Health Canada told Canadian Affairs this week.  Health Canada’s response comes after the Nov. 28 release of its annual report about MAID deaths in Canada.  The report says there were 16,499 MAID deaths in 2024, accounting for five per cent of all deaths in Canada that year. “MAID is no longer thi…