90,000 have been killed through Canada’s euthanasia regime: report
Canada saw a 7.5% surge in euthanasia deaths last year, and the total number of victims since legalization in 2016 is close to 100,000, according to new estimates.
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(LifeSiteNews) — Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Executive Director Alex Schadenberg has revealed that Canada has euthanized 90,000 people since 2016.
Based on government data and calculated 2025 estimates, Schadenberg has predictedthat around 90,000 Canadians have been euthanized since the Liberal government legalized the deadly practice in 2016.
“There were around 16,500 Canadian euthanasia deaths in 2024 representing 5% of all deaths,” he declared. “There have been around 90,000 Canadian euthanasia deaths since legalization.”
Schadenberg based his estimate on 2024 data from Ontario, Québec, Alberta, and British Columbia.
“Since Ontario, Québec, Alberta and BC represent 87% of Canada’s population, and since there were 1056 more euthanasia deaths in those provinces in 2024, and since there were 15,343 reported euthanasia deaths in 2023, therefore it is safe to predict that there were around 16,500 reported euthanasia deaths in 2024,” he explained.
Schadenberg noted a 7.5 percent increase in euthanasia deaths across Ontario, Québec, Alberta, and British Columbia from 2023 to 2024.
Furthermore, as of December 31, 2023, the Canadian government has counted 60,301 euthanasia deaths in Canada since legalization.
“I am predicting that there were approximately 16,500 reported euthanasia deaths in 2024,” Schadenberg explained. “Therefore, as of December 31, 2024 there were around 76,800 reported euthanasia deaths since legalization.”
“Since this article is published in late September, 2025, it is likely there have been around 90,000 Canadian euthanasia deaths since legalization,” he said.
Tragically, euthanasia, or so-called “medical assistance in dying” (MAID), has become increasingly popular among Canadians as wait times to receive health care in Canada have increased to an average of 27.7 weeks, leading some Canadians to despair and opt for death instead of waiting for assistance.
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This was the case with 52-year-old Dan Quayle, a grandfather from British Columbia. On November 24, he chose to be killed via lethal injection after being unable to receive cancer treatment due to the increased wait times.
Similarly, in 2022, a Winnipeg woman wrote in her posthumously published obituary that she chose to die by assisted suicide after being refused the treatments she needed: “I could have had more time if I had more help.”
Indeed, the sick and elderly who refuse to end their lives with euthanasia are often condemned as “selfish.”
At the same time, Liberals are focusing on expanding euthanasia rather than addressing the medical staff shortage crises. In February 2024 after pushback from pro-life, medical, and mental health groups, as well as most of Canada’s provinces, the federal government delayed the mental illness expansion until 2027. Liberals are also working to expand euthanasia to children.
The most recent reports show that euthanasia is the sixth highest cause of death in Canada. However, it was not listed as such in Statistics Canada’s top 10 leading causes of death from 2019 to 2022.
Asked why euthanasia was left off the list, the agency said that it records the illnesses that led Canadians to choose to end their lives via euthanasia, not the actual cause of death, as the primary cause of death.
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