The EWTN News portal (October 7, 2026) reports that the Canadian government, through its Minister of Justice Sean Fraser, has declared it will not expand its Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program to include those suffering solely from mental illness, indefinitely extending the current ban via upcoming legislation. The article cites statistics revealing that euthanasia accounts for roughly one in twenty deaths in Canada, with approximately 100,000 killed since 2016, while noting regional expansions like Quebec’s “advance requests” allowing euthanasia without contemporaneous consent, and a watchdog report exposing hundreds of unreported violations. The portal frames this non-expansion as a prudent pause in a “broadly popular” program, thereby legitimizing the existing industrial-scale slaughter of the sick and disabled as an acceptable baseline of civil order.
The Linguistic Sanitization of Murder: Euphemisms as Tools of the Antichrist
The cited article employs the lexicon of the culture of death with surgical precision. Terms such as “medical assistance in dying,” “MAID,” “assisted suicide,” and “euthanasia program” function as semantic anesthetics designed to obscure the ontological reality: direct, intentional killing of the innocent by state-licensed agents. The Fifth Commandment, “Non occides” (Thou shalt not kill), admits no exception for “grievous and irremediable medical conditions,” nor for “mental illness,” nor for “advance requests.” By adopting the regime’s Newspeak—“eligibility criteria,” “safeguards,” “violations of euthanasia rules”—the conciliar portal EWTN participates in the corruption of language condemned by Pius XII: “When language is corrupted, the mind is corrupted” (Address to the International Congress of Linguists, 1950). The phrase “broadly popular” applied to state-sanctioned murder reveals the democratic idol worshipped by the modernist mind: vox populi replaces vox Dei. As St. Pius X warned in Notre Charge Apostolique (1910), “They want to build a city upon the ruins of the City of God… but they will only build a city of man, which will be a city of the devil.”
The Theological Abyss: Confronting the “Status Quo” of Slaughter
The gravest theological error of the report—and of the conciliar establishment it represents—is its implicit acceptance of the current MAID regime as a negotiable political reality. The article focuses entirely on the non-expansion to mental illness, treating the killing of the terminally or physically ill as a settled, almost benign fixture of Canadian law. This is apostasy in action. The encyclical Evangelium Vitae (1995)—though issued by the usurper John Paul II, it reiterates the perennial teaching of the Church—declares euthanasia “a grave violation of the law of God” (n. 65), “an intrinsically evil act” (n. 62) which “no circumstance, no purpose, no law whatsoever can ever make licit” (n. 62). The Catechism of the Council of Trent teaches that the Fifth Commandment forbids “not only killing, but also every act from which the death of a neighbor may follow.”
The Canadian statute, by declaring a “grievous and irremediable medical condition” sufficient grounds for homicide, elevates human autonomy to the status of divinity, usurping the Dominus vitae et mortis (Lord of life and death). The report’s citation of the Cardus Health finding—that “vulnerable demographics were obtaining suicide assistance at disproportionately high rates”—is framed as a policy concern rather than a cry to heaven for vengeance (Gen 4:10). Where is the condemnation of the crimen nefandum? Where is the call for the conversio of the legislators? The silence on peccatum mortale, on the poena aeterna awaiting unrepentant murderers and their accomplices, exposes the naturalistic, humanitarian reductionism of the conciliar mindset. Salus animarum suprema lex (the salvation of souls is the supreme law)—a law utterly absent from the calculus of Fraser, Cardus, or EWTN.
The Quebec Abomination: “Advance Requests” and the Death of Consent
The article casually notes Quebec’s 2024 expansion allowing “advance requests,” where individuals can be euthanized at a time when they are unable to give consent. This is the logical terminus of the euthanasia mentality: the transformation of the “right to die” into the “duty to die,” and finally into the “state’s right to kill the non-consenting.” It is the Aktion T4 protocol resurrected under the maple leaf. The principle voluntas non potest cogi (the will cannot be forced) is obliterated; a past signature becomes a death warrant for a present person who may be screaming—interiorly or exteriorly—for life. This is not a “violation of euthanasia rules”; it is the revelation of the rule’s essence: raw power over life. The “hundreds of violations unreported to law enforcement” further demonstrate that the lex positiva of the secular state is incapable of self-restraint, for it lacks the sanctio of the divine law. As Leo XIII taught in Libertas Praestantissimum (1888), “A law which is not just, is not a law at all” (lex injusta non est lex). The Canadian MAID law is nulla et irrita (null and void) before the tribunal of God and the natural law.
Symptomatic Analysis: The Conciliar “Opposition” as Controlled Opposition
The source of this article, EWTN, is an organ of the conciliar sect, the ecclesia novae adventus occupying the Vatican structures since 1958. Its reporting serves a specific function within the paramasonic structure of the New World Order: to channel Catholic outrage into harmless political proceduralism. By highlighting the “pause” on mental health expansion, EWTN offers a placebo to the faithful: “See? The system works. The expansion was stopped. Trust the process.” This is the hermeneutic of continuity applied to evil: the intrinsic evil of the 2016 law is grandfathered in; the battle is moved to the periphery (mental illness) while the center (killing the cancer patient, the disabled, the elderly) is consecrated by silence.
The article quotes Fraser: “While there is not a perfect consensus on this issue, we believe this is the correct approach at this particular time.” “At this particular time.” The door remains open. The incrementalism of the revolution is preserved. The conciliar hierarchy—having abandoned the Social Kingship of Christ proclaimed by Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925): “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony”—has nothing to offer the Canadian state but humanitarian quibbles. They do not demand the abrogatio of the law; they do not excommunicate the Catholic legislators who voted for it (Canon 1398, 1917 Code: “Whoever procures abortion incurs latae sententiae excommunication”—a fortiori for euthanasia); they do not call the faithful to non-violent non-cooperation with evil (cf. Gaudium et Spes 79, though a conciliar text, the principle of refusing cooperation with intrinsic evil is traditional).
The Rights of Christ the King vs. The “Rights” of Man
Pius XI in Quas Primas declared: “The State must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… The annual celebration of this solemnity will also remind states that not only private individuals, but also rulers and governments have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” Canada, like all modern secular states, has formally dethroned Christ. The MAID law is the legislative enactment of the Social Reign of Satan. The “watchdog reports” and “parliamentary debates” are the rituals of the synagogue of Satan (Apoc 2:9), managing the harvest of souls for the abyss.
The article’s final lines—promoting EWTN newsletters—are the commercial signature of the great whore (Apoc 17:5): merchandising the faith while the innocent are butchered. True Catholic resistance does not lobby for “better safeguards” on the slaughterhouse floor; it denounces the slaughterhouse, declares the butchers excommunicati by the very nature of their act (ipso facto), and proclaims the Kingship of Christ as the only remedy. “He must reign, until He hath put all enemies under His feet” (1 Cor 15:25). The Canadian government, EWTN, and the entire conciliar apparatus are counted among those enemies until they repent, abrogate the laws of death, and confess Jesus Christ is Lord (Phil 2:11), to the glory of God the Father.
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Canada won’t expand assisted suicide for those suffering from mental illness, government says (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 07.10.2026