The rate of deaths in Canada from doctor-assisted suicide has now surpassed the rate of gun violence deaths in America. Now that Canada has added mental illness to the list of possible symptoms that merit being killed by a doctor, assisted suicide is one of the top causes of death. This was always the point of Canada’s socialist healthcare system.

Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program was championed as a compassionate measure to help people with terminal illnesses “die with dignity.” In 2023, 1 out of every 20 deaths in Canada was a doctor-assisted suicide.

According to the latest figures, 15,300 Canadians died after their doctors prescribed them a lethal cocktail of pharmaceutical poisons to take. That’s more deaths than the number caused by strokes, chronic lower respiratory diseases, and diabetes. It’s more than the number of people who died from Alzheimer’s, cirrhosis of the liver, flu, and pneumonia combined.

As a percentage, doctor-assisted suicide kills more Canadians than gun violence kills in America. The numbers in Canada have skyrocketed since last March. That was when Justin Trudeau’s government voted to allow mentally ill people—who cannot consent to medical procedures because of their condition—to opt for suicide if their doctor can talk them into it.

If you’re a suicidal person in Canada and you now call the nation’s suicide hotline, they’ll suggest that you go to a doctor and have him kill you. Canada’s socialist medical system is far too expensive to remain functional. It’s bankrupting the country.

The MAiD program was never about compassion. It was always about pushing the country closer to the point where it could legally kill people to save the government money. The next time someone tries to tell you that we have a “gun problem” in America, remind them that more people in Canada die from doctor-assisted suicide every year.