Mercy that would have been offered to a friend who died by his own arrangement back in 2007 (before MAID) due to terminal ALS, now that MAID has emerged as the "solution" is accompanied with the word smithing of "suffering." There are people I know who have died by this method this year, in their senior years, as they didn't want to "be a bother" to their adult children.
And MAID being offered to people like Kayla Pollock - who is paralyzed from the jab. The institutional response to anyone with a serious adverse reaction to the Covid shot is to slow walk the application for compensation, and along the way suggest MAID to 'ease the suffering.' Dr. Theresa Tam and others at Health Canada are the new "Twisted Sisters" of our Western culture.
Thankfully Kayla Pollock declined the institutional response to her serious adverse reaction, and fights on to get some justice and accountability.
Enlightening conversation on a topic that needs to have light shed on it.
As the old civil libertarian refrain goes: The state is force.
And so it is with assisted-suicide.
MAIDS is being treated in pop media as a "rational" response to human suffering. It can state itself as such but in reality and practice, when you take it to its logical end, it's just eugenics by other means.
By unwisely expanding it without deep introspection and honest and mature public discourse, Canada is in no man's moral and ethical land. It's on its own. Like abortion in North America, not even Europe goes this far in places like post-liberal states Holland, Belgium and France.
And leave it to Quebec to take a bad idea or trend and make it worse. Quebec's hyper-secularized posture signals to me it constantly is running from its Catholic past like few jurisdictions. The West in general has abandoned God and Scripture but Quebec is particularly hostile to Christian values and spirituality. All must submit to l'etat. During Covid, we saw North American jurisdiction react in varying degrees to Covid. As a whole, Canada was far more restrictive (which people falsely claim kept us safe while simplistically pointing to America) and willing to cross all sorts of ethical boundaries and sense of decency with Quebec, again, flexing its authoritarian muscles more than any other place with the exception of B.C. It can be argued Quebec went further than any jurisdiction in the West. And the results didn't justify any of it. That Quebec has taken MAIDS a step further into the moral abyss is of absolute no surprise to me. It's driven by communist/socialist ideals where the collective takes precedent over the individual. There's not strong collective if the individual is stripped of their human dignity and soul. Quebec thinks it's being 'compassionate'. So did the Nazis. What Canada and Quebec needs is EMPATHY. Two different things. But we're not having these sorts of discussions. Once again, like we saw with Covid, if we don't go along we run the risk of being told we don't care or lack 'compassion'. We fool ourselves into thinking we can separate the flesh and the soul. Holy Spirit anyone?
Canada is takes abstract issues but it's incapable of abstract thought. It's possesses a naive and immature intellectual disposition while spiritualism is all but absent. I've been listening to European political and intellectual discourses for decades - particularly UK, France and Italy as well as, of course, American. In doing so, to me, it becomes painfully obvious and embarrassing how far behind we are in Canada on such matters. Yet, we believe ourselves to be leaders. We're leaders as canaries in a coal mine. That's what we are. Canada is a cautionary tale.
Part of all this is on the citizens. It remains uncurious and simply deferent to the authority of the state. It demands little of the government. We still haven't had an independent inquiry into Covid.
Last, on the Supreme Court of Canada. That was in 2016-17. It's way worse now under Richard Wagner. The court is 100% far left woke progressive and their sophomoric and dopey opinions reflect it. I read their opinions and recoil in both anger and disappointment. This is the best we've got? Meanwhile, you sometimes read SCOTUS opinions and their works of art. Sure, Jackson and Sotomayor are intellectual pygmies but at least the court is balanced. No such thing here.
I don't know how the mechanics between the judiciary and legislature work here in Canada, but the court should not be rendering judgments ordering a new law of this magnitude be crafted without proper input from all Canadians. I can't but help but wonder if it was other than the Liberals if there would have been a push back. I don't know of the CPC raised concerns back then. Regardless, this is a law that needs to be reversed and revisited.
IF Poilievre gets in, he has a lot of work ahead of him undoing the social engineering framework Trudeau built particularly with Bills/law like C-11, 18, 26, 78, 63, 75 and 293.
Enough of me. Chapeau, Gord to you and your guests. Very illuminating. Hopefully, their humanistic perspectives begin to gain traction.
I always appreciate your essay length replies sir - the thoughtfulness and detail are very much welcome additions to whatever brain lint I have to offer.
And an inspired idea to put start-of-life and end- of-life pieces together, Gord. Both are the final frontier for the "godded human" control freaks to conquer.
In my humble opinion this solely pragmatic view of things and the desire for control over life and death themselves, is a logical result of the loss of Faith in God; specifically the One,Trinitarian God Who assumed our human nature in Jesus Christ.
Faith in the eternal salvation of mankind, brought about through Jesus’ suffering, death and resurrection invites us to unite our own lives to His; with all the joy, sorrow, comfort and pain they entail, in order to partake forever in His very Life.
To commit suicide is to deny this suffering aspect of life which, when accepted in Faith, has the potential to contribute to our own specific eternal salvation and to further the Creator’s Plan for an eternal life of ecstatic discovery and creative cooperation.
The principles written upon them are Globalist regime...period
This has become my lens for seeing, and understanding their sociopathic genocide as I look around day to day.
One through six layout how they are redefining society, seven through ten is relative and subject to their corrupt definition and seems harmless on the surface. Yet, when you consider how they are executing the first six, a person comes to understand hypocritical insanity of what they likely define as the last four.
1.Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
2.Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity
3.Unite humanity with a living new language
4.Rule passion, faith, tradition, and all things with a tempered reason.
5.Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
6.Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
7.Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
8.Balance personal rights with social duties.
9.Prize truth, beauty and love, seeking harmony with the infinite.
10.Be not a cancer on this earth, leave room for nature.
Good stuff, Gord. This is the larger story. We are becoming the very thing we feared but under the guise of mercy. Heaven help us.
Mercy that would have been offered to a friend who died by his own arrangement back in 2007 (before MAID) due to terminal ALS, now that MAID has emerged as the "solution" is accompanied with the word smithing of "suffering." There are people I know who have died by this method this year, in their senior years, as they didn't want to "be a bother" to their adult children.
Good and important conversation.
Thanks Ray,
We are so cavalier about life now, and can’t fathom the full spectrum of existence, including suffering and the natural end.
And MAID being offered to people like Kayla Pollock - who is paralyzed from the jab. The institutional response to anyone with a serious adverse reaction to the Covid shot is to slow walk the application for compensation, and along the way suggest MAID to 'ease the suffering.' Dr. Theresa Tam and others at Health Canada are the new "Twisted Sisters" of our Western culture.
Thankfully Kayla Pollock declined the institutional response to her serious adverse reaction, and fights on to get some justice and accountability.
Enlightening conversation on a topic that needs to have light shed on it.
As the old civil libertarian refrain goes: The state is force.
And so it is with assisted-suicide.
MAIDS is being treated in pop media as a "rational" response to human suffering. It can state itself as such but in reality and practice, when you take it to its logical end, it's just eugenics by other means.
By unwisely expanding it without deep introspection and honest and mature public discourse, Canada is in no man's moral and ethical land. It's on its own. Like abortion in North America, not even Europe goes this far in places like post-liberal states Holland, Belgium and France.
And leave it to Quebec to take a bad idea or trend and make it worse. Quebec's hyper-secularized posture signals to me it constantly is running from its Catholic past like few jurisdictions. The West in general has abandoned God and Scripture but Quebec is particularly hostile to Christian values and spirituality. All must submit to l'etat. During Covid, we saw North American jurisdiction react in varying degrees to Covid. As a whole, Canada was far more restrictive (which people falsely claim kept us safe while simplistically pointing to America) and willing to cross all sorts of ethical boundaries and sense of decency with Quebec, again, flexing its authoritarian muscles more than any other place with the exception of B.C. It can be argued Quebec went further than any jurisdiction in the West. And the results didn't justify any of it. That Quebec has taken MAIDS a step further into the moral abyss is of absolute no surprise to me. It's driven by communist/socialist ideals where the collective takes precedent over the individual. There's not strong collective if the individual is stripped of their human dignity and soul. Quebec thinks it's being 'compassionate'. So did the Nazis. What Canada and Quebec needs is EMPATHY. Two different things. But we're not having these sorts of discussions. Once again, like we saw with Covid, if we don't go along we run the risk of being told we don't care or lack 'compassion'. We fool ourselves into thinking we can separate the flesh and the soul. Holy Spirit anyone?
Canada is takes abstract issues but it's incapable of abstract thought. It's possesses a naive and immature intellectual disposition while spiritualism is all but absent. I've been listening to European political and intellectual discourses for decades - particularly UK, France and Italy as well as, of course, American. In doing so, to me, it becomes painfully obvious and embarrassing how far behind we are in Canada on such matters. Yet, we believe ourselves to be leaders. We're leaders as canaries in a coal mine. That's what we are. Canada is a cautionary tale.
Part of all this is on the citizens. It remains uncurious and simply deferent to the authority of the state. It demands little of the government. We still haven't had an independent inquiry into Covid.
Last, on the Supreme Court of Canada. That was in 2016-17. It's way worse now under Richard Wagner. The court is 100% far left woke progressive and their sophomoric and dopey opinions reflect it. I read their opinions and recoil in both anger and disappointment. This is the best we've got? Meanwhile, you sometimes read SCOTUS opinions and their works of art. Sure, Jackson and Sotomayor are intellectual pygmies but at least the court is balanced. No such thing here.
I don't know how the mechanics between the judiciary and legislature work here in Canada, but the court should not be rendering judgments ordering a new law of this magnitude be crafted without proper input from all Canadians. I can't but help but wonder if it was other than the Liberals if there would have been a push back. I don't know of the CPC raised concerns back then. Regardless, this is a law that needs to be reversed and revisited.
IF Poilievre gets in, he has a lot of work ahead of him undoing the social engineering framework Trudeau built particularly with Bills/law like C-11, 18, 26, 78, 63, 75 and 293.
Enough of me. Chapeau, Gord to you and your guests. Very illuminating. Hopefully, their humanistic perspectives begin to gain traction.
I always appreciate your essay length replies sir - the thoughtfulness and detail are very much welcome additions to whatever brain lint I have to offer.
You should start your own substack.
Such an excellent episode on all sides.
And an inspired idea to put start-of-life and end- of-life pieces together, Gord. Both are the final frontier for the "godded human" control freaks to conquer.
Thanks Jodi.
this is one of the best and most important podcasts i have ever heard
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In my humble opinion this solely pragmatic view of things and the desire for control over life and death themselves, is a logical result of the loss of Faith in God; specifically the One,Trinitarian God Who assumed our human nature in Jesus Christ.
Faith in the eternal salvation of mankind, brought about through Jesus’ suffering, death and resurrection invites us to unite our own lives to His; with all the joy, sorrow, comfort and pain they entail, in order to partake forever in His very Life.
To commit suicide is to deny this suffering aspect of life which, when accepted in Faith, has the potential to contribute to our own specific eternal salvation and to further the Creator’s Plan for an eternal life of ecstatic discovery and creative cooperation.
Who here is familiar with the Georgia Guidestones?
I know they were some stupid shit about capping Earth’s population at 600 million but were destroyed recently.
The principles written upon them are Globalist regime...period
This has become my lens for seeing, and understanding their sociopathic genocide as I look around day to day.
One through six layout how they are redefining society, seven through ten is relative and subject to their corrupt definition and seems harmless on the surface. Yet, when you consider how they are executing the first six, a person comes to understand hypocritical insanity of what they likely define as the last four.
1.Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
2.Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity
3.Unite humanity with a living new language
4.Rule passion, faith, tradition, and all things with a tempered reason.
5.Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
6.Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
7.Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
8.Balance personal rights with social duties.
9.Prize truth, beauty and love, seeking harmony with the infinite.
10.Be not a cancer on this earth, leave room for nature.