Canadian Convulsions > Canada - The worst income growth in the G7; Canada now poorer than the poorest US State; Medical suicide saving Canada $1/4bn per year

 

Pierre Poilievre

@PierrePoilievre

Dead last! The worst per person income growth in the G7 after 9 years of Jagmeet and Justin.

11:17 AM · Dec 9, 2024

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Bret 

@Bret_Sears

Have you ever thought about bailing on Canada? If so, where would you move? Jordan Peterson on moving to Arizona: Do you know that Canadians are now poorer per capita with regard to GDP than people who live in Mississippi? The richest province in Canada is poorer than the poorest state in the United States. And that's all happened since Trudeau. What happens is that as soon as you're successful anywhere in the world, if you have any sense, you move to the United States because everything is way easier here.

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Don't anybody tell Trump, or he won't want us for the 51st state.

More Canadians choosing medically assisted death

A government report reveals another double-digit increase in choice of euthanasia option

Euthanasia continues to represent a growing proportion of the mortality rate in Canada, accounting for nearly one in every 20 deaths in the country last year, the latest government figures show.

According to Health Canada’s annual medical assistance in dying (MAID) report, released on Wednesday, 15,343 people were euthanized in the country in 2023, an all-time high. While the number represents an increase of 15.8% over 2022, it registers a drop from an average annual growth rate of about 31%, the report noted.

While the growth rate has declined, it still reveals another double-digit increase in Canadian citizens opting to end their lives under the country’s national suicide law. It is “not yet possible to make reliable conclusions about whether or not these findings represent a stabilization of growth rates over the longer term,” the MAID report added.

Federal statistics show the growth in cases of assisted death making up 4.7% of deaths in 2023, compared to 4.1% the previous year.

More than 95% of euthanasia cases involved people who were terminally ill, with cancer cited as the most common reason for the request. The average age of someone seeking assisted death is over 77.

No one in Canada's far-left media has attempted to determine how much money Canada saves in medical costs and Old Age and Canada pensions from premature deaths through MAiD. A very quick and dirty estimate is about a quarter of a billion dollars per year, just in pensions. 

READ MORE: UK MPs vote to legalize assisted dying

“An increased awareness of MAID within the care continuum, population aging, and the associated patterns of illness or disease, personal beliefs, and societal acceptance, as well as the availability of practitioners who provide MAID, may all influence the rate of provisions,” the report noted.

Medically assisted death in Canada is only legal for people on the basis of a physical health condition. However, the government is reportedly considering allowing persons with Alzheimer’s and dementia to request their deaths before the worst effects of such illnesses set in.

In February, the government delayed a controversial plan to allow assisted dying for the mentally ill until at least 2027, to allow the country’s healthcare services to properly prepare. Medical professionals expressed concerns that they are not yet adequately trained to determine whether someone with a mental illness qualifies for euthanasia.

Canadian Health Minister Mark Holland said at the time the government accepts the equivalency of mental suffering and physical suffering, but that it is a “question of readiness.”

In 2021, Canada loosened its euthanasia laws to no longer require that a patient’s condition be terminal, allowing people whose condition is serious and incurable to request the option. The number of medically-assisted deaths in Canada has risen significantly since it was first introduced, from roughly 1,000 in 2016 to more than 15,000 last year.

In recent years a number of other countries have introduced assisted dying laws, including Austria, Australia and Spain. The UK recently passed legislation on the issue though the vote in the House of Commons was not the final say.

Hear God's Word for you in Psalm 139:16-17. 

“All the days ordained for me were written in your book

before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your

thoughts, O God, how vast is the sum of them.”

God nurtured you in the womb, and since your conception 

He has watched over you.

MAiD is a godless policy by a godless government. 

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French Civil Servants Paid Millions to do NOTHING for 25 years

What a mess France is in! Rapidly increasing numbers of Muslims;

Yellow vest protests every singe week this year, and the

government seems impotent to do anything about either.

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Imagine turning up at work every day and doing absolutely nothing. Or better yet, staying at home and doing nothing and still getting paid. The dream is a reality for 30 French civil servants.

French taxpayers have been spending more than €1 million per year to pay the salaries of 30 so-called “phantom” bureaucrats in the southern city of Toulon, a report by the Provence-Alps-Riviera Regional Audit Office, seen by local newspaper Var-Matin, revealed.

One of these ghosts picked up his state paycheck while simultaneously working a managerial job in the private sector, while all 30 received promotions and pay increases based on seniority, despite not working for more than 25 years.

The workers initially lost their jobs when water services in Toulon were privatized in the 1990s. Local authorities failed to find them replacement jobs, and were therefore bound to keep paying their wages.

“It is regrettable, to say the least, that the city was not capable of finding new jobs for some of these employees, especially the youngest,” the audit report read. The report also criticized the “jobless” workers for staying on the government payroll until the mandatory retirement age of 67 to maximize their pensions.

While money for nothing might be a particularly shocking story, French private sector workers have often bemoaned the ‘jobs for life’ culture of the civil service, which employs nearly one in five French workers. Furthermore, an Economic Ministry report in March revealed that more than 300,000 civil servants were failing to work their statutory 35 hours per week.

The report comes after months of unrest in France, as workers protested their rising tax burden and falling wages.

In a bid to placate an angry public, French President Emanuel Macron promised to cut 120,000 public sector jobs by 2022, to facilitate tax cuts and a reduction of €60 billion in public spending. However, the planned layoffs have also triggered mass protests.

Macron has also promised to pass laws forcing workers to actually show up for their 35-hour work week, and clamp down on staff taking more than their five weeks annual leave.

Unbelievable! The gov't could have continued to pay their wages for 3 years and told them to use that time to train for another field, longer if necessary. But to just continue to pay them for decades for doing nothing, and then promoting them and giving them raises is utter insanity. I wonder how many more civil servants are doing this?