Canada Reportedly Set To Surpass 100,000 Assisted Suicides

Canada is closing in on 100,000 deaths through its government-assisted suicide program, a threshold no modern nation has reached.

The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) estimates approximately 94,125 Canadians died through Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) from legalization through the end of 2025, LifeNews reported. The group projects the country will cross the six-figure mark by mid-to-late April 2026. Ontario alone recorded 5,303 MAID deaths in 2025, a 7.2% jump from the previous year, suggesting the pace is accelerating rather than leveling off.

Official government data backs that trajectory. Health Canada’s Sixth Annual Report confirmed 76,475 cumulative assisted suicide deaths through Dec. 31, 2024. The program took 16,499 lives that year, accounting for 5.1% of all Canadian deaths and a 6.9% increase over 2023. (RELATED: Doctors Pressured Son To Commit Suicide, Family Alleges In Mission To Stop Euthanasia Project)

Those figures dwarf every other country with legalized euthanasia. The United States recorded just 5,329 assisted suicide deaths across 23 years of state-level programs, according to the National Post. Belgium tallied 33,647 over two decades. Switzerland logged 8,738 in a similar span. Only the Netherlands posted a higher percentage of total deaths from euthanasia at 5.8%, but its smaller population yielded far fewer raw cases, 9,958 in 2024 compared to Canada’s 16,499.

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Disability advocates have sounded alarms about the program’s reach. Roger Foley, a disabled Canadian living with an incurable brain disease, told the Daily Mail that his caregivers pitched MAID as his exit from the hospital. “I’m fighting to my last breath, but I’m up against a regime that is cruel, desensitized, and out for blood,” Foley said, according to Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) News.

Canada also plans to extend MAID to individuals whose sole condition is mental illness beginning March 2027, CBN News reported. The expansion has already been postponed twice.