Canada Has Euthanized 15 Prisoners Since September
On December 3, 2025, Canada’s Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness responded to a request by Garnet Genuis (MP) (Sherwood Park – Fort Saskatchewan Alberta) reported that from legalization until September 2025 – 15 federal inmates have been killed by (MAiD) euthanasia.
Considering the fact that Canada abolished the death penalty in two main stages: first for civilian crimes in 1976 (Bill C-84), replacing it with a mandatory life sentence, and then completely for all military offences in 1998. The last civilian executions happened in December, 1962, with the final military executions in 1945.
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This is not the first concern about this issue. Tristan Hopper wrote an article that was published in the National Post in May 2023 asking if Euthanasia of Canadian prisoners is a form of capital punishment?
Hopper wrote that, at that time, nine prisoners had died by euthanasia in Canada. The APTN network reported that the first three prisoners to die by euthanasia were indiginous Canadians who remained shackled during the killing.
Hopper’s report stated that Ivan Zinger, Canada’s Correctional Investigator, told Kathleen Martens, the reporter for the APTN network, that euthanasia should never be done in the prison. He stated:
“Under no circumstances should the procedure of MAiD be dealt with inside a penitentiary,”
“That is highly problematic, unethical and immoral in my view. I think we would be the only jurisdiction in the world who would do that.”Kim Beaudin, vice-chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples and a member of corrections’ National Aboriginal Advisory Committee opposes (MAiD) euthanasia being done in prisons.
According to Canada’s Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness December 3 report that of the 15 Canadian prisoners who died by euthanasia, 14 were killed in an external facility and 1 died in the correctional facility.
I have always opposed capital punishment because I do not believe that the government should have the right in law to kill it’s citizens.
In the same way, I do not believe that medical practitioners should have the right in law to kill people.
LifeNews.com Note: Alex Schadenberg is the executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition and you can read his blog here.
