Miss Understood No. 41 critiques Canada’s MAID expansion, including Bill C7’s 2023 approval for mental illness sufferers like a 31-year-old Toronto woman with lifelong depression and PTSD, whose $62M annual healthcare savings critics call "sinister." They warn of temporary distress overriding consent, cite TikTokers under 20 requesting MAID, and condemn parents choosing assisted death for non-consenting infants with severe brain conditions. The episode frames MAID’s growth as a slippery slope devaluing vulnerable lives while ignoring better alternatives, urging reliance on faith and community over state-sanctioned euthanasia. [Automatically generated summary]
So poor people can now get medically assisted suicide in Canada.
Yeah, and according to the government, they should because what is there to live for?
There's nothing to live for.
No, you should just be hopeless and then end your life.
If you think the government won't help you, you're wrong.
they will help you die.
And welcome to Misunderstood, the show for all you culturally and politically misunderstood ladies, gents, demisexuals, and non-binary folks.
We are your nerdy hosts.
I'm Dwayne The Rocky.
And I'm a cryptocurrency expert, Nat.
And today, we're going to unpack Candace Cameron-Bure giving up her reign as the queen of Christmas and the backlash she received.
We're also going to try to provide the who, what, when, and where of FTX because we know so much about cryptocurrency.
And then we're going to talk about some sinister additions to Canada's medical assistance and dying laws.
Yay!
But first, I don't know.
Do you take it away?
Nat, because I'm starting this.
Take it away, Nat.
All right, for those of you who are still with us, I feel like many of you are not.
The queen of Christmas, Candace Cameron Bure, has given up her crown and she's left Hallmark.
So I'm sure many of you are familiar with the Hallmark channel's annual Christmas movies.
They're cheesy as hell, but I love them.
And they make for a great drinking game.
I'm not personally a huge fan, but I accept that many are.
I love them because they're so cringe.
Yes, you know.
Like, they're just so entertaining.
And they're all usually filmed in my hometown of Abbotsford.
So it's funny.
Yeah.
So you'll just see a store and it has the exact same name as the store downtown Abbotsford, but it's something completely different.
And you're like, oh, okay.
Anyway.
I digress.
So she's partying with Hallmark to begin new acting ventures that align with her Christian values.
So according to New York Post, the former full house star revealed that she has a preference for the Great American Family Network's values and discussed her move to the Tennessee-based company after years with Hallmark.
Speaking to Wall Street Journal, she said her heart wants to tell stories that have more meaning and purpose with depth behind them, adding that she knew that the people behind Great American Family were Christians that loved the Lord and wanted to promote faith programming and good family entertainment.
A disgusting Christian.
Horrible that someone just wants to, you know, pursue artistic endeavors that align with their faith.
That makes me sick.
It's disgusting.
And she should be canceled.
And I guess many other people think she should be canceled because the mob has, of course, come after her for being a Christian and just living out.
She should know better.
She should just not listen to the Bible, ignore it completely.
It's optional as a Christian to believe in the Bible and just suppress her faith.
Suppress her faith, yeah.
And just, you know, make, I don't know, like orgy porn or something.
Like whatever, pursue pleasure.
And what's expedient.
Yes, of course.
So yeah, in all seriousness, the mom has really come after her pretty hard.
And I don't know, Kat, do you ever feel like the mob just goes after Christians because they haven't been in the news cycle for a while?
And they're like, this is a great way for me to, you know, virtue signal and get some brownie points with progressives.
As opposed to them just like hating Christians overall?
Because I feel like that's also part of it.
Yeah.
Yeah, which is, which is kind of great in a way because it's like, oh, we know these people hate Christian.
I wonder if it's like, is the mob actually descending on her more than anyone else right now?
Or is it just that the media is picking up on this particular mob?
Like, that's the question.
It's like, are there constant mobs constantly going after people, but no one cares?
And then just the media just decides to care.
That's true.
And then so maybe I guess the media is the mob as well.
Aha.
Yeah.
The media is the mob.
Is that the title of the show?
No.
But yeah, a lot of celebrities have come after her.
And I mean, I just think it's, I don't know, I'm kind of proud of her for, you know, persevering, I guess, because she is glorifying God by staying true to her values.
And it doesn't, like, just because she wants to, you know, work in an entertainment comp for an entertainment company that aligns with her faith doesn't mean she like hates gay people or hates no I see I don't see how that like I don't get that correlation at all yeah I don't know I don't either and if anyone's wondering Candace Cameron Beret Bre was DJ Tanner on Full House Yes.
I mean, I feel like a lot of people know that, but maybe you don't.
Maybe you live under a rock.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The rock raven.
Maybe you can do it.
Maybe you live under the rock.
See, she's cats dressed like the rock today for those who are listening.
And she looks hella cool.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What else should we do?
Is there, oh, yes, we have one more story that's kind of on this.
I feel like, did we beat that to death or do we want, is there anything you'd like to add?
No.
Good for her.
She's allowed to pursue creative endeavors that align with her values, like you've said.
Yeah.
And DJ Tanner.
I do have actually one more thought.
There you go.
If that's okay.
Sorry about that.
There's just, this is quite the variety show today.
We're sorry that there's not really a clear theme, but there's just so much going on in the news.
It's, we kind of just want to try to address everything because we're experts.
We're experts at everything.
Literally, everything.
One thing I wanted to add is that like she is actually setting a really good example for Christians because the Bible does say that we will be persecuted for his namesake, his name being Jesus.
And like so many Christians have become so weak in 2022, we've really bent to the mob with like, you know, the trans agenda, critical race theory and all that, where people are teaching those kinds of things in church.
So it's just crazy that like a celebrity of all people is someone that we can actually sort of look up to in the Christian faith.
I'm like shocked by that.
So it feels like it's one of the signs of the apocalypse.
Right.
You're like, oh, celebrities will be speaking the truth.
It's like, what?
You're like, wait, shouldn't like my pastor or something, you know?
So I just, I just think it's really interesting that she's setting such a good example.
And hopefully this encourages more Christians to just, you know, stay true to their values.
I don't know.
Yeah, I feel like for every one celebrity that says something, there's like a hundred people that feel that way or maybe a thousand.
And sometimes it's bad because you're like, oh my God, these people are crazy.
They're like, oh, I should be able to get an abortion just so I can keep my career.
Like, I don't want to lose my body.
Abortion is an act of mercy.
Exactly.
Yeah.
And then on the other hand, you have people like Candace who are, in our opinion, fighting the good fight.
Yeah, fighting the good fight, literally.
So good for you, Candace.
But not literally.
Yeah, she's literally knifing people.
Like literally, but not literally.
No, she's literally going to.
Okay.
No, I'm just kidding.
She's going to be a little bit more.
My God.
Like, Marin Morris, no.
Maybe we shouldn't be endorsing that.
No, we're not.
Okay.
Okay.
No.
Perfect.
Violence is never the answer.
It's never the answer.
Ever.
No.
Okay?
Okay.
Love your enemies.
All right.
And then just one more story on this.
Not really on this, but it kind of ties in some interesting, another base celebrity, I guess.
Raven Simone reveals why she declined to have her Raven's home character be a lesbian.
So for those of you who don't know, Raven played Raven on the Hit Disney series back in the day.
And Raven is a lesbian.
What's the name of that show?
It's called That's So Raven.
Okay.
Yeah, just That's So Raven.
Okay.
That is So Raven.
Anyway, so she's gay.
She's been married to a woman for like two years now or something.
And I guess Disney asked her if she wanted Raven or the character Raven to be a lesbian.
And she was like, no, I'm an actor.
Like, I don't.
And we've talked about this before.
Yeah.
But it's pretty cool.
Yeah, it is cool.
Like, wow, you actually want to do your job.
And it's also kind of like, I didn't watch Raven, That's So Raven.
I was a little older.
But I imagine that if she wasn't a lesbian in the show the whole time.
She wasn't.
Then it would be weird to just make sure she had said that.
Exactly.
No, and it's, I mean, it just makes so much sense.
Like, you're an actor.
Like, wouldn't you, isn't the whole point of it wanting to play different people from different perspectives, you know, backgrounds and all that?
Like, that's kind of the beauty of it.
So, I don't know.
It's refreshing.
One of the things she said was, I didn't want to change who she was.
And when you really start blending your personal life with your character, it's even harder.
Like, I'm stereotyped for the rest of my life.
Let's just keep it 100.
If you ever see me in another character, you see Raven Baxter, and that's not what the deal is.
And I think the one thing that differentiates me from her is now a lot more.
That's so true, though.
Because when your character is so similar to you, you're like, that is like the cast of friends that happened to so many of them were just like Joy Treviani.
That's who Matt LeBlanc is as a person.
I'm convinced it must be.
Yeah.
Well, the only other thing I've ever seen Matt LeBlanc in is playing Matt LeBlanc on episodes, which is a great show.
Right.
Yeah, exactly.
And so you're like...
He got pigeonholed.
Yeah.
Yeah, you can't separate yourself from that.
So I think it's good for her.
I mean, I don't really think she's much of an Oscar award-winning actor anyway, but, you know, good for you.
Did she have superpowers, Raven?
She's psychic.
She's a mind reader.
She's psychic.
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Got it.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, she goes like this.
She would know if she's gay by that point.
That's a good point.
Like some people may not know, but it's like Raven would.
She's psychic.
She literally psych herself.
And if she didn't know, she's a terrible psychic.
Terrible psychic.
She's actually not a great psychic in the show.
Anyway, it doesn't matter.
Are there such good friends?
No.
There absolutely are not.
I'm just saying, I am.
I'm coming out.
She's psychic and non-binary and hemisexual.
And yet liberals hate us.
What the heck?
We're just a heck, you guys.
It's not very nice.
No.
All right.
Well, let's just talk about something really simple now.
That we understand in its entirety.
Yeah, please.
I have never understood a topic more than the crypto market and the FTX collapse.
Actually, eat, sleep, and breathe.
Crypto.
When I go home, all I read about is crypto.
Yeah.
And specifically this collapse, which I was following before last week.
Oh, me too.
I have been following this for months.
She is an expert.
I'm an expert.
And I would just like to add that Kat will be naming her baby crypto.
That's how much.
Crypto Krasnowski.
I'm naming her after my own name, too.
So I'm just saying.
We're going in that direction.
That's how committed we are to bringing you guys the truth about FTX.
So take it away, Kat.
Okay.
What is FTX?
Tell me like I'm five.
I don't know.
Well, that's good.
Okay.
So FTX is a digital currency exchange, much like the stock market, but it's for stuff that doesn't really exist.
Okay, so cryptocurrency is not real.
Yes.
No, that's what you're saying.
Yeah.
That's what I'm saying.
Sell it.
Sell it all.
Okay, sell it all.
That's what we're calling the episode.
Okay, so it became, FTX particularly became popular because really good marketing, people like Tom Brady and Giselle Bunchen, they got behind it.
A bunch of other celebrities.
Money was moved around.
FTX bought a giant stadium in Miami.
Yes.
That's how you know someone's successful.
Yeah.
It's when there's a stadium like the Rogers Center here in Toronto, there's the FTX Stadium.
I think it's in Miami.
Yeah.
For the Miami Heat, I think.
There you go.
Yeah.
There you go.
So if you have a stadium, basically no questions asked.
You're successful.
Some people, however, always thought that FTX and the head of FTX, whose name is Sam Bankman Fried, people call him SBF, and I will be calling him FBF.
SBF from now on because it's easier.
Like SPF.
Yes, but SB.
He won't protect you from the sun.
No, in fact, he's translucent.
Some people always thought that he and FTX were sketchy.
And I'm like, Elon Musk.
Really?
Yes.
And Elon Musk apparently got a message from SBF some time ago, like last year.
Yeah.
When Twitter was, the Twitter acquisition was still up in the air.
And SBF offered $3 billion to Elon to help him acquire Twitter.
And Elon said his BS meter went off because he was like, how does he have three?
That's bullshit.
Just not in front of the baby.
Sorry.
Sorry, crypto.
Elon just didn't believe that this company and this guy had all that cash, liquid cash.
And then, so people were always kind of sketched out by it, but other people were just heavily endorsing it, including Democrats and politicians.
And then in November of this year, FTX balance sheet was released and it showed that there's a lot going on here, but basically some sketchy stuff.
There's this sister company called Alameda Research that is also owned by SBF.
SBF?
Yeah.
Yeah.
FTX FBF.
It's a lot.
It's a lot.
Anyways, this other company was valued at $14 billion, except it turns out that that $14 billion was mostly in crypto coin, which are this, this token, which is owned and created by FTX.
So basically, the entire wealth of this company was derived from nothing.
So it's this token that doesn't, the token is just to get people to use the trade, the exchange.
So he's a mutual FTX.
Basically, he's just creating value out of nothing and then saying, oh, my company's valued at this much money.
And then when you look at it, it's like, oh, but that's not actually, that has no value.
So upon learning that, this other company, a competitor to FTX, sold all of their, it's called FTT, the tokens.
Yes.
This currency.
Yes.
So they sold all of the tokens, thus plummeting the price of the tokens into nothingness, thus making this Alameda Research company, which is like a subsidiary sister company to FTX, valueless, completely broke, basically.
And people also didn't know that there was this connection between FTX and Alameda.
They thought they were too like, oh, Alameda is saying FTX is really, really good, but really it's owned by the same guy and it's all BS.
Also.
Also, just a side thing, the, what's his name?
SBF is the second largest Democratic donor behind George Soros.
Gross.
So that's the other thing.
So after all this, this crypto stuff is a complete bore to me, even though I completely understand all of it and I'm an expert and I live and breathe it.
We've all fallen in love with it since this.
Outside of all that very interesting stuff, the most interesting part of all this is the juice and the drama, which Matt just alluded to, which is that SBF was held up by, like I mentioned, Democratic leaders, politicians, and people are calling him a philanthropist.
But it's like he's donating all his money to one particular group, which is the Democrats.
And his brother apparently works at the Democrat Party.
I don't know that.
Right, right.
And he's basically missing now, too.
Like he's just kind of gone because he lives.
So they live in the Bahamas.
Yeah.
And there's all these people that work for FTX and they all lived in this condo together.
And now he's like trying to find another country to move to so that he's not going to be indicted by the United States because it's possible that what he's done here is a crime, although I'm not particularly sure about it.
But people are saying it could be.
So he's like on the run, maybe?
Right.
Sort of?
That's so confusing.
There's a lot going on here.
Yeah, there's a lot going on and I understand all of it.
Yeah.
100%.
I'm very, very knowledgeable here.
Maybe we should talk about some of the fun stuff.
The fun stuff.
The fun stuff.
So the fun stuff is that there's this girl who was the CEO of Alameda Research.
Her name is blah, blah, blah, blah.
She's a former supermarket.
Caroline Ellison.
Former super, let's bring up a picture of her.
She is beautiful.
She is allegedly Sam SBF's ex-girlfriend.
Her name is Carolyn Ellison.
She had a Tumblr account that she used to go off on and talk about her prescription drug use, orgies, polyamorous relationships, masochism.
That's funny.
So it's so shocking that someone like that would be bad at managing money.
Yeah.
No, it's so true.
And these people are young, too.
Like, they're ravishing.
She's beautiful.
Yes, she's cute.
Yeah.
Nice.
Yeah.
So I have some quotes from her Tumblr.
These are all alleged because her Tumblr was deleted recently.
So I couldn't actually verify that they were written on Tumblr, but this is what people were saying that she wrote on Tumblr.
Okay.
Okay.
So she, she's talking about polyamorous relationships here.
She says, none of this hierarchical bullshit.
Everyone should have a ranking of their partners.
People should know where they fall on the ranking.
And there should be vicious power struggles to move higher in the ranks.
So basically crypto is like a huge scam.
That's kind of what I'm getting from all this.
I mean, I think that people would argue that like Bitcoin is stable because there's actually like different from this FTT coin.
Right.
Okay.
Like Bitcoin actually has like, there's only a certain number of them that can be created and there's like machines.
Is there more transparent with Bitcoin?
Yeah, sure.
Of course.
I'm an expert.
Yeah, I know nothing about this.
It's just crazy.
I know everything.
I know everything about this.
Yes, actually.
We both know everything about this topic.
We know a lot.
Yeah.
Well, all your Bitcoin.
Well, one of the other things she said is, I didn't get into this as a crypto true believer.
It's mostly scams and memes when you get down to it.
That's one of the things she said.
So it's like, is she telling the truth is what I want to know.
What do you think?
Do you think, like, I understand, like, maybe Bitcoin's right.
Like, Bitcoin maybe is more stable, but in general, like, it just, do you ever think about the fact that even our bank accounts, like, I know it's not cryptocurrency, but you're like, that's just someone injecting that into my account?
It's like, how do I know this is wrong?
So that's the thing.
When this FTX collapse started happening, people started put like when that company sold all their FTT tokens, other people who owned them started selling theirs and wanting to withdraw the money.
And what happened was there was a bank run, which is when, exactly like you said, if I, if everyone goes and tries to take all their money out of a bank at the same time, there's not enough actual money there to pay everyone.
So that's like the money in your account is not sitting in a vault in cash, obviously.
So it's not the same.
It's like Harry Potter.
Exactly.
But that's at least regulated by the government, which is like, you know, good in some ways, bad in some ways, but at least there's a little more accountability.
There's a little more accountability, but this is completely unregulated.
So when people are like, I want my money out of there, FTX is like, sorry.
Yeah.
So people lost thousands and thousands, millions of dollars on this stuff because they're like, there's no way to actually make them pay that money back.
So I think that's where the criminality comes into it.
Right.
But yeah, it's like there's nothing actually backing up this money whatsoever.
So it's scary.
And then to hear someone like Caroline, who is supposed to be working at Alameda Research, which is supposed to be like understanding and researching and backing up and making crypto more reliable, it's creepy to hear her say that it's a scams and memes.
Yeah, exactly.
It's funny because now she's a meme.
Yes.
And that's why it's, that's why it all comes around, Caroline.
Yes.
Just never trust like ugly nerds is what I'm getting from this.
Because if they want to just, they just want to get back at you.
They want to get back at you because they were miserable in high school or whatever.
We're pro-jock here.
Yes.
I'm pro Barbie and Ken.
No, I'm just kidding.
Didn't it like affect a lot of celebrities' net worths and all this?
Yeah, so apparently Giselle and Tom both lost millions of dollars.
But do you think, like, why do you think these celebrities were so free to trust this guy?
That's what I don't understand.
Like, yeah, that's the that's what a lot of people are asking.
No one understands.
Like, is there something we don't know?
Oh, no.
No, for sure not.
There's no everything.
It's all out there.
We understand all of it.
Of course.
We do.
But like the rest of our listeners and our viewers, maybe they probably.
Maybe you guys have some questions.
Don't email us.
Yeah.
In fact, what you could do is you could, whatever you think is going on, you tell us, and then we'll let you know.
We'll let you know if it's true or not.
Just explain it to us like we're five.
Yes.
And then we'll be like, yeah, or no, or what?
Yeah.
I think that's a good idea.
Yeah.
Well, and apparently the guy who's cleaning up FTX, he's the new CEO.
Yeah.
He says it's like a bigger mess than even we can fathom.
It's like really not us.
No, not us, but you.
But you obviously.
Which is so crazy, though.
How is like, how do people get away with this stuff?
Like, is it it just makes like my tinfoil hat just wants to go on right now.
I'm like, there must be.
Well, this has happened throughout history.
This is just the way the world works.
It's like the more money you have, the more able you are to scam and get away.
Exactly, which is really troubling.
Because if you're just like a young person, upstanding citizen who wants to start a company, the bank is going to be like, oh, let's look at all those financial statements.
Like, let's dig into this.
I don't know about that.
You're going to pay your taxes.
This and this.
But then the bigger you get, the less like, yeah.
There's like, you know, you can get away with more because there's not as many people watching over you, I guess.
Yeah.
That's, yeah.
Yeah.
Better words than I was doing.
No, you're doing great.
Well, this is just fascinating.
Yeah.
Is there anything else that we need to know about?
No, that's it.
That's everything.
Anyone needs to know?
That's all people need to know.
It's still ongoing.
Things are still coming out.
Everyone's talking about it.
No one understands it except for us.
Except for us.
We understand it.
I'm actually a genius now.
I know everything after this.
I totally did not drop out of first year economics.
I nailed it and went on to graduate with honors.
Oh, interesting.
One thing to note is that the operations were run by Bankman Freid's inner circle of 10 roommates, and they were all paired up romantically.
Romantic, like.
So there's no, that's not going to cause any problems.
No.
And there's all sorts of stuff.
Like, I didn't, there's so much stuff, but apparently, like, Caroline's dad is a guy and a thing.
Of course.
And it's like sketchy.
Yeah.
Like, SBF's mom is a girl, a thing.
She does some.
She does some stuff with like, you know.
Yeah, she's sketchy.
So basically, there's this and this, and then you go like this, and then it's like, bam!
The empire's fallen.
That's basically you get it.
Serious Considerations00:15:18
That's basically what it is, I think.
I do understand.
I understand all of it.
Yes.
And have this whole time.
Anyway, so I hope that justice is served.
And you all learned something.
And hopefully these people get their money back.
They won't.
Sorry, Kevin O'Leary.
Sorry.
Yeah, Kevin O'Leary.
Bro, you should have known better.
Like, we knew.
I didn't lose a penny in any of this.
I didn't either.
I didn't lose a cent.
I thought about investing.
And then we looked into it and we're like, I was like, okay.
That's smelly.
I just don't trust nerds.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
Not crazy.
You got punked, Kevin.
Only super handsome nerds.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah, like Spider-Man.
Superman.
Both of them.
All of them.
Both of them.
Both of them.
Any man?
Okay.
All right.
Can we talk about something a little lighter?
Let's lighten this up.
This has been a really heavy episode.
I'm so sorry.
We're going to lighten it up.
We're going to lighten things up.
So medical-assisted suicide.
Yes.
So woman with disabilities nears medically assisted suicide death after futile bid for affordable housing.
So, poor people can now get medically assisted suicide in Canada.
Yeah.
And according to the government, they should because what is there to live for?
There's nothing to live for.
You should just be hopeless and then end your life.
If you think the government won't help you, you're wrong.
They will help you die.
Exactly.
They will help you.
They will help you die.
They don't want to offer you any alternative solutions, though.
No, no way to ease up your pain or help your life improve or get you a job or help you pay your rent.
No, no, Just let's just kill you off.
They're going to kill you.
They're going to kill you.
And they're happy to do it.
And they're happy to do it.
So I just have some background on this law.
So the medical assistance in death law became legal in 2016.
And basically, at that time, there were some strict criteria, like the basic stuff.
You had to be 18, you have to have voluntarily signed up for it, et cetera.
But it was specific to people who had a serious and incurable illness, disease, or disability with yada yada yada, whose natural death has become unreasonably, sorry, whose natural death has become reasonably foreseeable.
Right.
So you're dying.
So you can see death looming.
You're dying.
And they're like, you are in pain.
You're dying.
We will just hurry this up for you and make it happen.
Now, in 2021, that law changed to people whose foreseeable death, or sorry, whose death is not foreseeable.
Yeah.
And it included people who are just in a lot of pain, have diseases, but they're not necessarily dying.
And people were pretty upset about that.
However, in March 2023, so in a couple of months, that law is expanding again to now include people with mental disabilities, depression, anxiety.
That is now going to qualify you for medical-assisted death.
So there's just no hope for these basically people.
It's very sad.
So we'll get to the woman now specifically.
Let's talk about this lady.
So there's a 31-year-old Toronto woman who uses a wheelchair and she's nearing final approval for a medically assisted death request after a fruitless bid to secure an affordable apartment that doesn't worsen her chronic illness.
She was diagnosed with multiple chemical sensitivities, which triggers rashes, difficulty breathing, and blinding headaches called hemiplegic migraines that cause her temporary paralysis.
So basically, the chemicals that make her sick are cigarette smoke, laundry chemicals, and air fresheners.
And she is at risk of anaphylactic shock and has EpiPens with her at all times.
Yeah.
So that's serious.
It is serious and I think yes.
It's not just like, oh, like laundry detergent makes my skin itchy.
It's like it's, it sounds pretty serious having temporary paralysis from of course.
And I, I like, we can't imagine that sort of pain.
And she's in a wheelchair from an unrelated accident that she had.
Exactly.
But it's like the problem is like, okay, yes, I don't want this woman to suffer, but I don't want this person to die either.
Exactly.
Like, why can't the government try to help make this person's living situation better?
We have the government seems to be so much being living.
Right.
Living.
The thing is, though, the government has so much money to send to Ukraine to buy vaccines and all this stuff, but we can't actually help our community when they need it.
That is exactly the, like, you hit the nail on the head.
We're sending billions of dollars to the Ukraine and we're spending all this money on gun laws and all this stuff.
And we're like, there are, there's a woman 31 years old.
She's young.
That's young.
I'm not even 31 yet.
She's not even 18, but yeah, one day.
One day I will be.
She's 31 years old and she wants to die because she can't live in a place with clean enough air for her not to be sick in.
It's like there are things we can do, like a really good air purifier.
Maybe there's a laundry service that can come and get her laundry done in a like a clean environment for her.
Like she, the problem is that she's looking for a wheelchair accessible apartment building that she can afford with her disability check.
Doesn't really exist because those, like, I mean, that might exist, but she also needs clean air in the apartment building.
So it's like, that's, I can't even, I don't even know if those places exist.
So what she needs is at-home, like solutions.
Yes.
And I'm not a doctor, but I'm thinking a good air purifier, some medically sealed doorways and whatever.
Like, I think we can like let this woman live.
I just have to help her.
There has to be a way.
There has to be a way to do that.
There has to be a way.
And I mean, how much money are we spending on other stuff?
Right.
Exactly.
And then the 31-year-old woman wants to die now.
Yeah, no.
And we talked about this in episode number 34.
I've misunderstood.
We talked about medically assisted suicide, death.
Sorry, no, medical assistance and dying made.
You guys should go check it out episode number 34.
But we talked about how this is a slippery slope.
Like, we just don't know where they're going to draw the line here.
And it was a slippery slope before when they initially granted this law.
And it was like, okay, only if you're going to die in like a couple weeks.
But now it's like, no, no, if you have depression or if you have severe anxiety, if you have eco anxiety, all these things.
So like this isn't even just depression.
Like this is, there's like people who are actually really going to die.
They're on their deathbed already.
Then there's someone like her who's like, I having really terrible chronic illness and pain and I can't live.
And then there's below that, there's like, I have anxiety.
Yeah.
We haven't even gotten to those people yet.
Yeah.
We'll get there.
We'll get there.
But it's just, it's just, where do we draw the line?
That's what I want to know.
And guess what?
The line is just going to, it's going to keep moving and moving and moving.
And then one day you can just wake up and have a bad day, I assume, and just decide, hey, I'm ready to go.
And that it is today.
The day is today, and I will be.
Well, that's actually 2023.
I will be doing this live on the air very soon.
Choose life.
I was just, you know, like there could be fundraising websites, community services, go to churches.
Church.
Churches.
If this woman was a member of a church, I genuinely believe they wouldn't let her die.
They'd be like, let's fundraise.
let's get her that stuff that she needs well and I think this is gonna get there must be other people with the similar illnesses Maybe they could live in a place together.
That's what I was thinking, too.
Like, there must be a household where we can send these people suffering.
But one thing that this is going to, this is very dark, and I'm so sorry, guys, but it's just the truth.
Like, what if this person doesn't know God?
And all these people who apply for this, they don't know God.
They're not saved.
Like, and they do this.
They die.
And then what?
Like, then you're in hell.
And I'm pretty sure hell is a lot more unbearable than living on earth in pain.
Like, I just think it's not worth the risk.
Like, I don't want these people to live eternity in hell.
Like, you know what I mean?
I know it is, but it's serious.
Like, we're just letting these people make this serious decision.
I don't believe in heaven and hell, clearly.
I know, but it's just so sad.
Like, you're like newsflash, babe.
Like, you're going to die and it's going to be worse than living.
Like, I just, I don't want, I don't want people to take that risk.
Yeah.
It actually like breaks me, my heart.
Like, I could cry thinking about it because it's like, there's just, there's always hope.
And it's so sad that our government just doesn't give a shit about our well-being.
And we always knew that, but this is just so much more tangible.
So much more tangible.
It's just, it's like population control to the 10th degree.
It's like, oh, there's too many people on the planet.
Let's start killing 31-year-old women.
And they're devaluing her life because she's in pain.
Like, her life matters.
Yeah.
Like, and she wants, she could go on living if not for the fact that she just needs somewhere healthy to live.
Right.
Also, there's this other whole part of this medical assistance and dying thing where the government actually saves millions and millions of dollars.
The more people that they kill through this program, the more money that they save in healthcare.
Found this cost estimate for Bill C7, medical assistance in dying.
It's a really long PDF, but I'll just talk about one little part.
Yeah.
So, under the new legislation, it says the cost of administering MAID is estimated at $4.4 million.
And thus, the net reduction in healthcare costs for provincial governments will amount to $62 million.
So, basically, healthcare, like if we spend X amount on healthcare, but we execute basically this many people, those people are no longer going to be needing health care.
So, we're saving $62 million.
Right now, we're saving $89 million, but apparently, with the new projections, it'll be closer to $62 million.
That's like, no one wants to talk about that.
That's very sinister.
Instead of like, that's so sinister, the government's just like, meh, like 62.
That's, that's not a little bit of money.
And where's that going to go?
Yeah.
Ukraine?
Are they going to send that 62 million?
It's going to be into our pockets.
That's for sure.
And I don't want your gross blood money.
No, I don't.
And there's another article following this.
Canada will soon allow medically assisted dying from mental illness.
And they ask the question, has there been enough time to get it right?
No.
The answer is absolutely not.
Of course not.
And there's so many people who have actually come out against this.
Toronto Center for Addiction and Mental Health, which is CAMH, Canada's largest psychiatric teaching hospital, has said that assisted dying shouldn't expand without more study.
The Canadian Mental Health Association raised serious concerns about expanding MAID without first increasing mental health care funding.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There was another one too.
Oh, yes.
This is a different article.
But well, on this article that we're still on, the subject of the article is this woman.
And it says here that she's been struggling with mental illness since she was eight years old.
At 13, she was prescribed her first trial of antidepressants.
Now at 31, again, 31.
So young.
And she's a kid, right?
Yeah.
Now at 31, she's tried many medications, too many medications to count and spend much of her life either entering either in therapy or waiting on a list to receive it.
She's bounced between doctors and has been giving multiple diagnosis, diagnoses, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, borderline personality disorder.
And then it says she wavers between wanting to die and trying to live, especially for her 11-year-old son who is cared for by her parents.
So, so wait, some days she wants to die, some days she wants to live.
We're going to err on the side of death, even though this woman has no real reason to die.
And on that, if this person has that many mental illnesses, how are they able to make a decision about their future?
Exactly.
You're going to listen to the mentally ill person who's depressed about them wanting to die.
Like instead of trying to help them.
That's sound logic.
It doesn't make sense.
It really makes sense.
Like if we haven't fixed her yet, like I understand that's like, oh, it's not like we haven't done anything to help her.
Like she's been through all these doctors and whatever.
Keep going.
Keep trying.
Like encourage her to live.
Show her the beauty of life.
And she has an 11-year-old son who right now she can't care for, but maybe one day she could.
Yeah.
And what is that going to do to that poor child?
Exactly.
That your mother chose death because she's so depressed.
And that's the thing, though.
Like when you're a parent too, like you kind of give up yourself for your child.
And it just seems really self-centered.
Almost.
Yeah.
A little bit.
I'm sorry.
And again, like, I am not, we're not here to throw stones at anyone who's suffering.
Like, it breaks my heart.
Like, no, we want her to live a happy life.
We're not just saying, like, oh, suffer and don't die because that makes me happy.
Like, absolutely not.
Yeah, absolutely.
I want this person to be happy.
I just think like the government are like the government already tries to be God and now they're literally playing God.
Like I just, this is going to have dire consequences.
And we're just, it's just like, it reminds me of like just going to a slaughterhouse.
We're just sending people to school.
Like, who are these doctors?
I know.
And how can they, how can they live with themselves?
Like, there just seems to be so many ethical issues with this.
And whether it's made into law or not, like, laws are not always like good.
No, pure.
Hello, Nazis.
Yeah.
Hello.
So I'm just saying, just because it's legal doesn't mean it's just.
And I just think that there should be more people should be questioning this.
It's a huge deal.
It's a huge deal.
Like, so many innocent people are just going to die because they're suffering.
And it just, oh, I just, honestly, I could like cry thinking about it because it's just so heartbreaking.
Yeah.
And it gets worse.
Yeah.
There's now young people are really this TikToker TikToker wishes for medical assistance in dying due to her battle with depression.
And her wish could come true in Canada next year.
This is from Evie.
So this girl posted a TikTok viral lip sync TikTok with the caption, when you have such severe treatment resistant depression that even your doctor suggests made.
Who is this doctor?
Yeah.
What kind of look how young she is.
I know.
She's under 20, I'm thinking.
Yeah, she's so cute too.
She's so cute.
Like, let's assume she's suffered greatly.
It's not, let's assume it's an extreme case of depression.
Exactly.
And maybe she has, like, she's justified in that.
Maybe she had a terrible childhood.
She was abused.
Like, I don't know.
I'm just projecting.
Like, let's assume it's not just like, oh, my boyfriend talked me.
Like, let's assume it's some serious, serious shit.
Like, give her the benefit of the doubt.
Exactly.
Let's help her.
Yeah.
Like, other people on the planet have been through worse.
Yes.
I'm thinking.
I'm thinking you're probably right, especially if she's so young.
She's not even 20 years old.
And one thing that's so interesting, and we've talked about this on the show before, is that just because you have depression, like doesn't mean the solution is a pill or something.
There are so many, exactly, or death.
Like there are other options for you to help you cope and to, you know, maybe it's diet, maybe it's exercise, maybe it's some sort of lifestyle choice.
There are so many options.
And it's like, did your doctor tell you that before they were?
That is exactly, yeah.
Like, right, did the doctor mention any of those things?
Like, hey, maybe you should just go for a jog or maybe get a hobby.
I don't know.
I'm going to have a toxic family.
Like, some people, like, I understand family is super important, but sometimes people are born into toxic, horrible families and they're better off without them.
Many Young, Positive Choices00:07:09
No, for sure.
So maybe, like, have a new community.
Going to church.
Have we explored health?
Like, have you been on magnesium, which is really, really effective in helping cure like depression and anxiety?
Right.
Has have like I'm again projecting and guessing here, but I'm guessing the doctor has not talked about that stuff with her.
It's just like, oh, we tried this depression medication and this anxiety pill and it didn't work.
So you should probably kill yourself.
Yeah.
Like the government should probably kill you.
Yes, exactly.
Yeah.
No, it's, and it's crazy that this many young people, because there were a lot of comments on this too, kind of being like, oh, so one user commented, I'm applying for MAID as soon as I turn 18.
And another person replied, me too.
Another person wrote, I wish I had access to this TBH.
And someone else said, it's okay to want to consider it.
It's okay to have all manner of thoughts.
This is purely about you sending you support, whichever path you choose.
So basically, just a bunch of people telling this person, yeah, go for it.
Like, this is how you're feeling.
Isn't that like when people pile on on Twitter and tell someone to kill themselves?
Like, isn't that like a bannable offense?
It should be.
I think it is.
I'm pretty sure it is.
But like now, because it's legal.
Yeah.
Where's the morality in that?
And why aren't we wondering why so many young people are feeling this hopeless?
If these are like teenagers, we should maybe think about.
And she's obviously a teenager.
She spelt depression with a three.
Right.
Yeah.
I mean, I do that too, but I'm like super young.
We can get her help spelling.
But maybe, hey, maybe we should be like questioning why there's so many young people, so many young people suffering people.
And I'm wondering if maybe the pandemic had something to do with it.
Maybe, maybe not.
I'm sure lockdowns were really wonderful for our youth's mental health.
Absolutely.
It's just really sad.
It's super sad.
And I hate it.
The government website says, if you are experiencing a lot of pain and suffering due to your medical situation, talk to your physician or nurse practitioner about options in relation to your medical condition or circumstances and your possible interest in MAID.
No.
Like it's no, it's just like getting a pap smear.
Yeah, they're like, oh, like it's like an ad.
Like, oh, you feeling low?
No.
Phil.
Oh, you feeling really low?
Here's the news.
Yeah.
And I mean, are these doctors unbiased?
Do they, what if there's incentive for our medical practitioners to perform?
Well, the fact that they're going to save $62 million a year in healthcare.
Right.
Maybe there is an incentive.
So maybe we can't trust our doctors at all.
I don't know.
This is making me very like skeptical.
I'm never going to the doctor again.
I think I might not either.
I'm actually scared.
That's terrifying.
It's scary.
Like, oh, I have like breast tenderness.
They're like, you should kill yourself.
Yeah.
Please just go.
I have really bad cramps today.
Whoa, that's too far.
You've suffered enough.
Yeah.
You know what?
I have suffered enough.
Yeah.
So, um, and then it gets even weirder.
It gets even weirder.
It gets even worse, actually.
So this article is from National Post.
Yes.
Canadian parents have asked for medically assisted death for babies.
So, okay, that sounds horrible.
It's still pretty horrible.
It's horrible.
But it's not just like random healthy babies, at least.
Yet.
Yet.
But it will be.
It will.
So doctors say explicit requests for MAID have come from parents involving very young children.
Should it ever be granted?
Most parents, when faced with this, oh, the tragic scenario is some babies are born with like layers of their brain missing and they're basically vegetables.
They can be kept on life support, but they're never like they're going to die and they're never going to experience any sort of cognitive anything.
Right.
They're just vegetables.
That medicine knows of.
Well, yes, that's right.
So these parents, apparently, so this is a quote: when most parents faced with this tragic scenario opt not to pursue aggressive treatments to prolong the child's life without interventions, the child will die slowly over the course of weeks.
Super sad.
Yeah.
Horrible.
Then it goes on to say, some families ask, if they're going to die at the end of this anyways, maybe three weeks from now, and we don't believe they're going to have a meaningful positive experience between then and now, why must we all go through this period of waiting?
Yeah, I don't know.
I find it interesting because I wouldn't want that blood on my hands.
Well, I'll answer their question.
Why must we go through this period of waiting?
Because it's your child.
Yeah.
And it's your job, literally, not to kill them.
It's literally your only job is not to kill your child.
I would have to agree.
Sit with them for the three weeks if that's how it works.
I agree.
I think the choice of letting them die naturally is better.
I think it's more moral.
I think that this little baby, even if it is, if it is born missing some parts, let's say it was made in the image of God.
It's a human being.
And one of the criticisms of this is that an infant cannot consent to their own death.
So basically you're letting...
It's a convenience for the parent.
Exactly.
Exactly.
And you're letting, you're putting this, this baby is born with rights, even if it can't defend itself or advocate for itself.
So why are we throwing their rights out the window?
I just for convenience.
Because it's awk.
It's awk for the parents.
Like maybe they have plans.
Right.
I guess they don't want to sit at a hospital bed for another couple of weeks.
Don't have kids.
Exactly.
Like, that's a worst case scenario as a parent.
And I don't wish that on anyone.
And it's horrifying.
And I'm so sorry that that's happened.
No, it's so I can't even imagine how if that happens to me, to anyone, my job is to sit with my kids for those last three weeks and choke down the tears and hold their hand.
Yep.
Not just conveniently put them down.
No.
Like they're not a sick puppy.
Like, and that would also be horrible.
That would be horrible.
But yeah, like put down your puppies.
But it is a human being.
So there's a little bit of a difference there.
And again, it's just playing God.
And I just don't understand why a parent could do that to their child.
I just can't, I cannot understand it.
Like, we have to assume that the kid is not in active pain because they're like, they didn't even say, like, oh, the kid is in so much excruciating pain throughout this.
They're saying they're not going to have any positive, meaningful experiences.
Okay.
Wow.
Sometimes like a week's without positive, meaningful experiences.
Like, you know, it's so true.
Like, at least they're not saying this kid is like in excruciating pain.
We can see it.
It's like they're just saying, well, it's not going to get better.
Right.
So let's speed this up.
I got places to be.
I, yeah.
And we know if this, if this is allowed, what's next?
Slippery slope.
What do we think is next?
Like, oh, my eight-year-old, he's helping me off.
He gets bullied at school.
He's not, he's not having positive experiences in his life.
Well, I have a solution for him.
Yeah.
Let's just, yeah.
Let's take him to the hospital for a quick, quick injection there.
That's the thing.
We say that it won't, like, oh, ha, ha, ha, that'll never happen.
It will.
We went from like medical assisted death for people who are literally on their deathbed and they're in pain and you just want to speed it up for them.
To infanticide.
To, yeah, to infanticide.
And to people, I'm depressed.
I have anxiety.
I'm 18.
Okay, you can kill yourself medically through the system.
This is just very bad.
And we're sorry that this is so dark.
Bring Light, Spread Love00:02:48
We're so sorry.
But you need to know about it and you need to tell people about it.
And something needs to be done about it.
I'm not sure what.
I think leaving Canada is our safest bet at this point.
Or at least, like, if you have a friend who's suffering, like, try and be there for them.
When someone's suffering, don't let them suffer alone.
Bring them into your community, into your family.
Invite them over for Christmas dinner.
Like, do whatever you can to bring people into your world to make them feel better instead of letting them think that this is their only option because it's absolutely not.
There is always a light at the end of the tunnel.
And like, you are so loved.
Like, people are so loved.
You are created made in the image of God.
Like, he literally knows every single hair on your head.
Even our friend Mike.
He's bald, but he knows how many were there before.
And I'm making light of a series.
We have to.
You have to laugh about it.
Otherwise, I'm going to cry.
Yeah, honestly.
I could hold, I'm holding back tears a little bit, but you are so loved.
There's always hope for you.
Like, we love you.
There's somebody, like, you matter.
Okay.
Yeah.
So please, like, there are options for you.
And if you're really struggling, get help.
And just don't talk to a Canadian doctor.
Get help from anyone.
Anyone else?
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