696 - Claiming MAID for disabled is 'coercive' and 'eugenicist' gives opponents ammunition to end the program | CBC News
Stories of disabled people being "forced" to pursue Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) dominated Canadian news in 2022. Disability activists, primarily on Twitter, but elsewhere as well, have picked up the thread and taken it further, suggesting that current government policies around MAID — which were mandated by a Supreme Court of Canada ruling — are explicitly coercive and eugenicist in nature. These activists argue that the Canadian government actively uses MAID to encourage disabled pe...
