A critical moment is upon us—but before I get to this most important matter, I’d like to apologize with my delay in getting this report out to you. 

Moving Campaign Life Coalition’s Ottawa Bureau downtown really took the wind out of us! 

The voices of our past have much to teach us as we reflect on the decisions made by our parliamentarians and our government.  

In my Federal Report, I seek to bring you a thoughtful assessment of the happenings on the Hill with the lens of different great thinkers.  

Today, I report on Bill C-218 through the lens of Canada’s very own George Parkin Grant. 

It is time, yet again, to draw a line in the sand. 

Parliament is now debating Bill C-218, a private member’s bill that would stop the catastrophic expansion of euthanasia ("MAiD") to those suffering solely from mental illness—an expansion set to take effect in March 2027. 

This shift offers state-sanctioned death instead of hope, posing a fundamental test of our national conscience. 

More than a policy dispute, the debate on the expansion of "MAiD" is our confrontation with the philosophical destiny of our technological civilization—an ill fate about which George Parkin Grant warned the Canadian people.  

If Canada offers the ultimate technical solution—the termination of life—for the struggles of psychological or mental anguish, our nation further embraces the homogenizing logic of technique. 

This homogenizing logic has one end, the ushering in of a new form of tyranny which can only but remove particularity: the particularity of this country, this province, this city, this community, this family, and, even, the particularity of the life of this or that vulnerable person suffering mental anguish. 

This solution of death for mental anguish, if adopted in Canada, will be adopted in the other states that are fungible parts in Anglo-American technological civilization. 

This debate arrives as our nation has already fully embraced technical solutions to human existence.  

One out of twenty Canadian deaths occurs by "MAiD".  

This overwhelming uptake of euthanasia and assisted suicide is a direct consequence of the modern drive toward technique, which Grant defines as the means to achieve “the masterful control of human and non-human nature”. 

The Tyranny of the Mental Health State 

The expansion of euthanasia for mental suffering realizes moves Canada toward a tyranny that will, as Grant put it, be “much, much smoother” than historical oppression.  

By defining deep psychological suffering as a problem requiring administrative termination of life, the expansion of "MAiD" would use the proliferating power of the medical profession, which has become a “chief instrument for tightening social control in the western world”.  

This globally homogenizing, de-individualizing system prioritises technical mastery and efficiency over the unpredictable struggle inherent in the particularity of every human life. 

Undermining Rights Through Technical Standards 

The push to expand "MAiD" is built on a modern moral premise that judges whether a life is ‘worth preserving’. This judgment is based on technical, quantitative standards that Grant fundamentally opposed. 

The philosophical shift toward accepting death for distress is achieved by redefining personhood and adopting the concept of “quality of life”.  

These metrics undermine the traditional basis of justice as rendering to anything what was its due.  

Instead, technical society attacks suffering persons’ right to life based on factors like neo-cortical function, mental and psychological health, physical ability, and the presence of pain and mental suffering.  

Now that Canadian society has begun grading the value to life in terms of quality of life, the criteria eventually exclude more and more groups from ‘having lives worth living’. 

Every life is worth living.  

By denying any right to existence for certain members of mankind, we are unwittingly undermining the very basis of human rights themselves.  

This technical approach accelerates homogeneization, which, when pushed to the extreme, as Grant says, leads directly to tyranny. 

A Call to Reassert the Moral Boundary 

Technological society has created a “homeless world” where persons are cut off from their roots in pursuit of money.  

This deconstruction of the community, the family, the person has led Canadian society to “ruthlessness” and “alienation” under the guises of compassion and inclusion. 

By writing our respective MPs and supporting Bill C-218 against the expansion of "MAiD", we assert that the only just response to mental anguish is care, accompaniment, and justice, rejecting the ruthless technical logic that seeks to achieve merciless extinction in the name of a managed, high ‘quality of life’. 

We urge you to stand against this technical destiny: 

• Pray for wisdom and courage among our legislators. 

• Contact your MP to express support for Bill C-218 and opposition to the 2027 expansion. 

• Share this message with your networks—especially those in healthcare, ministry, and mental health advocacy. 

God love you.