Pierre Poilievre CONDEMNS Sex Changes for Kids

Pierre Poilievre made his stance pretty clear:

no irreversible sex changes for kids. Jonathon breaks down Pierre's response to a question from Billboard Chris and a conversation that Pierre had with former Chilliwack school trustee Barry Neufeld.

 

The 4th annual National “Pride” Flag Walk-Out Day Monday, June 1st, 2026 - Protest at the Ottawa Catholic School Board

 Despite our Archbishop's request in 2021 to the Ottawa Catholic School Board to support Catholic Teaching and to NOT raise the PRIDE Flag, once again, now in 2026, this request has been ignored. 

Ottawa  Archbishop Marcel Damphousse re. The Ottawa Catholic School Board's decision that  schools fly the rainbow (PRIDE) flag during June ( May 28, 2021), a decision that goes against the teaching of the Church

 

ARCHBISHOP’S MESSAGE  to Faithful Catholics, May 28, 2021 

Decision difficult to understand

Last Tuesday, May 25, the Trustees of the Ottawa Catholic School Board voted 9-1 in favor of a motion to allow schools to fly the rainbow (gay pride) flag during the months of June. This decision, despite my opposition, leaves me confused and disappointed. Many of you share my pain and suffering. I am very aware of this. I have received many e-mails from parents, teachers, and members of our Catholic community who have expressed their displeasure and incomprehension about this important decision that goes against the teaching of the Church. For some, the reactions have been very strong. Faced with this reality, many questions arise. How should we react? What are we to understand about the current state of our Catholic schools in Ontario?

One thing is certain. It is never wise to react and make decisions when emotions are still high. We risk saying hurtful words, judging too quickly with condemning comments, or making hasty and unreflective decisions. As Archbishop, I must exercise my leadership with wisdom and serenity. It seems to me essential to take actions that will give life and not destroy it. Therefore, I need time. Time to calm the emotions and time to acquire the facts to better understand the state of things. Time to consult and ask all the necessary questions.

It is important for you to know that I have no legal authority over Catholic schools or school trustees. The province funds and controls our Catholic schools. Trustees are elected by the people. I can only exert my influence on religious education and moral issues. I did this at the Trustees’ meeting itself. You can find my presentation on the diocesan website.

I understand that this is just one of many school boards in our archdiocese. But you can be sure that the pressure to do this, as in many other school boards in Ontario, is forcing the leaders of all our Catholic schools to reflect and take a stand. For those who feel discouraged by these facts, do not allow yourselves to be drawn into the pit of despair. Instead, turn your attention to the good that exists. How can we nurture and strengthen that which is good?

Let us remember that as a Church we have a mission to see to the well-being of all souls. The thousands of young people in our Catholic schools are among those souls and deserve the best. I believe that more than ever they need our presence and witness to grow in faith. It would be easy to give up and declare defeat. Instead, the Spirit of Pentecost gives us courage, guidance and wisdom to bring about the Kingdom of God. Jesus Christ never told us that it would be easy.

Rest assured that I am personally committed to accompanying the stakeholders at all levels to ensure Catholicity in our schools. It will be long and hard work, but necessary. Prayerfully, together we will succeed. There are many good people who are well intentioned in our school boards. It is a matter of accompanying them well. Perhaps we have missed the mark in this regard. I think it is important to recognize where, as a Church, we have not done everything possible to educate, train and prepare people for mission. It is never too late to start.

 Please continue to pray for me, as I do for you.

 Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us.

 Saint Joseph, pray for us. 

X Marcel

At the time, Pat and I thanked the Archbishop
below

Dear Archbishop Marcel Damphousse

Thank you for standing for the truths of our Catholic Faith by voting against a motion to fly the homosexual “Pride flag” at Catholic schools in June in 2021, and telling them that the flag is a “political statement that endorses behaviours and lifestyles contradicting the Catholic Church’s teaching.” I am sorry for not thanking you earlier

It is a very strange culture we are living in when our Catholic Schools are no longer teaching our children the truths of our faith.  I have grandchildren who attend Catholic Schools, and I feel a heaviness in my heart and a sadness in my soul for what is happening

God bless you!

Patricia Maloney, Ottawa, On

Maureen Ward, Ottawa On  

Photos from today

There were approximately 40 in attendance

Thomas D'Arcy McGee Primary School in Beacon Hill North 

Grades Junior Kindergarten to Grade 6 

I took this photo from the bus today

An Ontario School Board again says “No” to the “Pride” Flag

 From Campaign Life Coalition

Last year, LGBTQ activists brought in heavyweights like former Premier Kathleen Wynne, Mississauga City Councillor Alvin Tedjo, and the Peel Regional Police in the hopes of pressuring the Dufferin Peel Catholic District School Board to fly the “Pride” flag.  

The DPCDSB refused. In fact, they voted 9-1 to ensure flag neutrality inside and outside schools and board offices. It was a much better year for students because of it.

But we knew the activists weren't done.  

This time around, at a meeting on Tuesday night, they recruited former Mississauga mayor/former leader of the Ontario Liberal Party Bonnie Crombie, Toronto Catholic District School Board trustee Markus de Domenico, and First Vice-President of the Toronto Elementary Catholic Teachers Robert Bauer as star players in their line-up of pro-"Pride" flag delegates.  

The meeting was only held as lobbying from the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association prompted Education Minister Paul Calandra to instruct the board supervisor to order the DPCDSB trustees to re-examine their neutral flag policy, which has been in effect for well over a year now.  

And once again, despite enormous political pressure, the trustees almost unanimously refused.  

My trustee, Brea Corbet (Mississauga Wards 9 & 10), the only dissenter, put forward a motion to fly the “Pride” flag and she didn’t get a single seconder. No seconder, no vote. Status quo remains.  

Hallelujah!   

I’d like to ask you to thank the trustees for their courage and steadfastness. You can find their contact info below. 

Fr. Paweł Ratajczak, OMI, centre, surrounded by CLC staff and other supporters 

I’d also like to ask you to thank His Eminence Frank Cardinal Leo as well. The spiritual leadership and episcopal direction from the Cardinal were invaluable and an answer to many prayers.

Fr. Paweł Ratajczak, OMI, delegated on his behalf at this meeting, reading a statement explicitly supporting the DPCDSB’s current flag policy.  

To quote just a couple of portions of it:  

“A Catholic Board cannot contradict the faith dimension when important decisions such as these are to be made—it would mean not being in communion with the Catholic Tradition and belief system. It is logical that Catholics should not promote symbols that are antithetical, contrary or not in conformity with the Catholic faith . . . We need to look for symbols within the Catholic Tradition which convey what needs to be conveyed without running the risk of confusing the youth and of presenting morality in a way that is disconnected from the truths of Christ and the Church. Why would we even turn to and rely on secular symbols to communicate what we as Catholics believe and stand for especially in such crucial and critical issues as the quest for identity and the sense of belonging?” 

The statement concludes:  

“…the Cardinal Archbishop of Toronto unequivocally supports the current flag raising policy of the Dufferin-Peel Catholic School Board. It is imperative that we show deference and respect to his leadership and his ministry and accept this position as our own.”  

The Cardinal’s voice made all the difference.  

As I argued in my own delegation, if the provincial government is only asking trustees to reconvene because it recognizes this matter as denominational, then there is nothing to reconsider, because the Church has made its position clear.  

The trustees were really given a choice—submit to their spiritual authority or to earthly authority. They overwhelmingly chose correctly.  

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Please take a moment to express your gratitude to His Eminence. Please also send a message of thanks to the trustees who did the right thing:  

His Eminence Frank Cardinal Leo
archbishop@archtoronto.org

Trustee Paula Dametto-Giovannozzi (Caledon/Dufferin)
pauladamettogiovannozzi@gmail.com

Trustee Anisha Thomas (Brampton Wards 1, 3, 4)
(647) 444-2738
anishathomas@hotmail.ca

Trustee Darryl D’Souza (Brampton Wards 2, 5, 6)
(416) 528-8515
darrylbcd@yahoo.com

Trustee Shawn Xaviour (Brampton Wards 7-10)
(416) 705-1030
shawnxaviour@gmail.com

Trustee Mario Pascucci (Mississauga Wards 1 & 3)
(416) 230-3611
mariopascucci@rogers.com

Trustee Herman Viloria (Mississauga Wards 2 & 8)
(416) 452-9345
hviloria@rogers.com

Trustee Stefano Pascucci (Mississauga Ward 4)
reelectpascucci@gmail.com

Trustee Thomas Thomas (Mississauga Ward 5)
(416) 845-8225
trusteethomas3@gmail.com

Trustee Luz Del Rosario (Mississauga Wards 6 & 11)
(416) 726-7614
luz_del_rosario@hotmail.com

Trustee Bruno Iannicca (Mississauga Ward 7)
(905) 270-0536
bruno.iannicca@3web.com

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What’s next? 

One of the meeting’s delegates, Rob Bauer, is First Vice-President of the Toronto Elementary Catholic Teachers and a member of the TCDSB’s "2SLGBTQ+ Advisory Committee." He was asked by Trustee Brea Corbet if His Eminence had ever weighed in on the TCDSB’s flag policy. He responded, “Not that I can recall.” 

Surely, he knows that the Archdiocese of Toronto opposes the flying of the “Pride” flag, but nobody should be able to say “Not that I can recall” ever again.  

No trustee, especially, should have any wiggle room when it comes to this issue.  

The Catholic school boards in Toronto and Durham still fly the “Pride” flag and others still celebrate “Pride” month.  

The Archdiocese’s direct intervention in the DPCDSB has proven to be pivotal. Thanks to it, over 70,000 students in Ontario’s second largest Catholic school board will be protected from ideological indoctrination this June. We need to encourage similar intervention in other boards, and from other bishops. 

Maybe “Catholic” trustees in other school boards will continue to defy the Church, but I think it would be much, much harder to do so if they had to look the Cardinal or their respective bishop in the eye as they did so.

Green-lit Trustee Paula Dametto-Giovannozzi (Caledon/Dufferin), third from left, accompanied by CLC staff and supporters, including fellow delegates Greg Tomchyshyn (CitizenGO) and Mason Schmidt

Also, Ontario municipal elections are rapidly approaching.  

When it was apparent the LGBTQ activists weren’t going to get their way at the end of the meeting on Tuesday, they started chanting “Shame!”  

They said “Vote, vote, vote!” and “Get them out!” 

If they’re going to be politically engaged, we need to be too. We need candidates of our own to run. Look at what the DPCDSB trustees were able to accomplish. Imagine we had good, solid trustees on every board.  

Please prayerfully consider putting your name forward. We need you.  

In Christ, 

Josie Luetke
Director of Education & Advocacy
Campaign Life Coalition

P.S. Don’t forget about National "Pride" Flag Walk-Out Day and the pray-ins taking place next week! We will send out an email tomorrow with locations.  

March for Life Canada - The March - May 14, 2026

Doctor Pascal Bastien speaks at the Annunciation of the Lord Parish on the March for Life Vigil March 13

Brilliant Presentation on Euthanasia in Canada and Worldwide 

Gathering on Parliament Hill

The March

Thanks for the photos Pat and Jackie !!!

Doctor Pascal Bastien - Wednesday May 13, 2026 - 7:00 PM Annunciation of the Lod parish

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Thank you very much. I'm going to try to speak to you.

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I'm going to try to speak to you like this and you tell me if you can't hear me. It's important to me that you can hear me. So if this is not sufficient, I

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will use the mic, but otherwise I will use the loud voice that a reader or lectctor needs to have so that the greetings are heard. We don't use

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microphones in our tradition. uh the you when you heard that Dr. So and so

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was coming to talk to you, you did not expect this garb. So I I feel the need to explain it. Uh maybe I'm a little self-conscious of the fact that I'm wearing a Catholic in front of you. But

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yes, so I'm I am a reader. Uh we have minor orders in in the Byzantine Catholic churches. Um and yes, I'm a

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physician and during the day I'm not dressed like this. I wear a lap coat and my scrub pants underneath underneath the cassic. Um, and that might be more

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familiar if you're expecting a physician to come and talk to you. But tonight, I'm not coming to talk to you as your physician. I'm coming to speak to you as

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a physician who is your brother in Christ. And I will be speaking to you as a Christian and therefore I think the

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Catholic is perfectly suitable for this conversation. Um, the even though of course the talk is informed by the time

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I spend at the bedside and in the hospital. Yeah.

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Um, this is I'll I'll jump right in in very briefly, but I I do want to preface by saying that this topic is very

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sensitive. It is by definition a matter of life and death. And while I will be presenting without shame what the church

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teaches in love uh on these hard topics, I realize that all of our families or certainly all of our friends have been

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touched by this growing enthusiasm that is surrounding us around youth in Asia.

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And you'll hear me use word old words like euthanasia more than made or medical assessment and dying. And I'll tell you why I don't like some of these

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modern words. Um but certainly at every if I'm if I don't make it sufficiently clear during the talk, I

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want to make it clear certainly before the talk that at no point are we going to be criticizing the people who amidst

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their suffering are doing very bad things. um and are willing to recognize that even some of the people who debate

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on the other side of this who don't know the Lord uh are might even be doing it with good intentions but they are wrong

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and they are not bringing about something that is helping our fellow men our fellow

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point No,

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maybe. Okay, maybe if I hold it up, it is it doesn't work. So, okay, the arrows

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change. Good. So, I'm not in U. So, this is an overview of the topics. We will be discussing misleading terminology which

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connects with what I was just saying a moment ago. I will present the teaching of the magisterium of the church uh without you know covering it up or

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rounding the corners. I will try to discuss why our country perhaps more than any other country is so

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enthusiastic for maid and you recognize in my name that there is a touch of French in both my first name and last

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and I'm you know totally French Canadian and so I'm not indifferent to the fact that Quebec is the place in the entire world where the most euthanasia is

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taking place. We will talk about uh how maid has really evolved in Canada legally uh and and technically in the

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hospital. And then we will talk about p of care which is the true answer uh of uh that we should be presenting to to

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the suffering patients to to people who amidst their illness are carrying at times a great deal of suffering. And I'll talk a little bit about what we

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should do on this eve of the march for life here in Ottawa.

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A few words about the misleading words about the the false acronisms. MA made to start with of course is an acronym.

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And acronyms are often used because they're quick and because they don't necessarily force us to say out loud everything that they contain. And this

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is used in many uh debatably uh immoral topics. But for our topic this evening,

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mate. So made of course stands for medical assistance to dying people some medical assisted death but really medical assistance and dying is the

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original English term and it conceals something it conceals the word death already furthermore it is a bit of a no

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let's take that back it is a lie because before came to be there was already for 30 years the term pal of care which

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described what you do by using medical science to assist people who are suffering. So we have long been

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medically assisting people in a dying process and there is nothing wrong with that but that is not what maid stands

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for. Maid is about killing someone putting an end to their life using medical science to end a life.

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No doubt we're told with good intentions and I think that intention is is again though misguided real the vast majority

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of the time anyway but again the term is false and that has to be understood

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palative care could have been called aptly medical assistance in dying because the dying process is natural but

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here that isn't the dying here is not natural this is the point I'm trying to make um the

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the uh the technical term here category 1 category 2 uh we can talk about that some more maybe it's not crucial for

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this evening in one case the you are going to a place where the physician and

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the nurses will directly administer the drugs and ultimately the lethal dose to end your life versus category two where

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you go to the pharmacy with your great prescription and then you get all the drugs that you need and the sequence of that you need to take and then maybe you

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go on a you know on a hilltop with your family have a great last meal and take the pills yourself in Canada more than

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99% of maid is category one there is something I think that the experience shows that people prefer the uh the act

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being done externally onto themselves often by people who do wear a lab coat that is that takes away some of the and

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you know you don't expect people with a lab coat do anything but good medicine. So it is reassuring.

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But one of the greatest lies that I have not yet given this talk without a little bit of emotion. Forgive me.

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Try to stay strong for you. The greatest lie is around the use of the word dignity.

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the the largest organization that advocates for more youth in Asia in this country that started doing it even

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before Maine was legalized is dying with big dignity. I think you've all heard the term. You may have heard people

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speak. They have a uh a board made of some of the wealthiest most powerful

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Canadians. They are powerful lobby group and their name is dying with dignity. So let's pause for a moment and think of

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what that means. It means clearly that without euthanasia we are all at risk of dying without dignity. Which means what?

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It means that disease takes away your dignity. The your dignity is dependent on you having maybe the ability to stand

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straight or maybe your fancy red car or maybe the fact that you're not drooling when you eat. And if any of those things

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cease, you have lost your dignity. This is the greatest lie. And it's the greatest lie because it takes a

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fundamentally beautiful Christian concept, which is the one pointed to on the right, which is that we are created in

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the image and likeness of God. And that is why every human has inherent value

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and completely deformed. Right? Before Christians, you had in Sparta kids that were examined. This one doesn't look so

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straight and tossed out. This is and in other cultures horrible things of the same nature because we didn't believe as humans that we had inherent value.

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Christians are the ones who flip that around. In truth, the Jews had the book of Genesis before they were Christians.

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And this is now being misused. We're using the same beautiful word of dignity which came into the English language

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through the Christian faith and we are completely uh distorting it for this

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evil use. Uh the I point out here that dignity is not the same as external for pride. Right? So the the fact that you

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have a fancy house, a big car, the other way around, big house, fancy car um is not actually the reason for redeeming

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it. That's ridiculous. But at the same time, it is what we end up believing if you listen too much to what's outside.

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And many of us, let's be honest, are formed less and less by the gospel and more and more by CBC and whatever else

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we listen to on the radio and idol chatter outside these walls that are not gospel based. And unavoidably like I'm

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sure even father like it it affects all of us, right?

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the um I mean all these are kind of sur the greatest trick you may remember that this is maybe

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generational thing there's a movie called the usual suspect in it the character that's the great evil says he's talking about like this great mafia

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lord the greatest trick the devil the devil ever pulled was to convince the world that he didn't exist but the

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second greatest trick might be to convince you that you don't have inherent dignity Because then we can do whatever we want with you.

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St. Leo the great in the fifth century told us this our homaly for Christmas feast of the incarnation Christian

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recognize your dignity for you have become a sharer in the divine nature.

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And about 1500 years later at in this document from Vatican 2, we're told since human nature as he assumed it was

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not enol by the very fact that has been raised up to a divine dignity in our respect to and I wanted to bring out these words were dignity of the human

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person understood through the lens of the incarnation and the teaching of the church comes to have sense. Most of what I'll

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quote this evening is directly of course from the gospel and from church teaching. This may be the only slide where I have an explicitly non-Christian

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source but it's to express the idea deeply. At the end of the second world war, the entire world realized the

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atrocities that had occurred. In particular, of course, the genocide, the show up. Uh, and

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the reflex of the world was to say, okay, never again. And in order to achieve that, the UN declaration of human rights was promulgated in 1948.

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and the preamble. So the very first text that you read when you open this document is the following. Whereas

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recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inaliable rights of all members of the human family is the

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foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world. This is the first sentence. So if you don't believe that

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and if people around us in this world who might have different views on mate do not believe that humans have inherent

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dignity they disagree and they're allowed to I suppose with the basic premise of the universal declaration of

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human rights and what happens and which by the way of course has Christian roots but this the world after the second world war realized we have to find some

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way of getting the entire human family, whether they're Christian or not, to agree on some basic principle. We're not going to mention Jesus, but we have to

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mention inherent dignity because otherwise all of a sudden someone can say, "Well, that group, they're not really human.

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They're not all the other ones." Yes, of course, we don't want to kill all the other nice people, but those people you can kill. And that those people can

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change. It can be the human inside the mother's womb. It can be the old patient who is drooling because they had a stroke or it could be the ethnic group that I dislike.

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But the point is once you lose this, you lose. But human dignity is a Christian notion.

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It is inherent. Without it, all crimes are the promotion of euthania relies on deceptive language. It seeks to reshape

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our thinking and discreetly corrupt some of the most beautiful and profound Christian notions. This character on the right, you see lots of icons. Byzantine

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Christians, we like our icons. I don't not that either. This character was actually taken from an icon of the nativity. And I think that anyway, he

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has two little horns. He does not have a halo. He is not a saint.

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and the he comes and speaks to Joseph right after the the uh this is an icon

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of the birth of Christ but it's is the story before the birth when you know J Joseph has these bad thoughts around uh

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you know how did this come to be that the woman I was promised to marry is now pregnant

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the world is whispering a lot of bad thoughts to us if we don't anchor ourselves, take a

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good step back, anchor ourselves in the gospel and look at things fairly objectively. If we just listen to the

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idol chatter, we can easily fall prey to some dangerous and lethal nonsense.

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We're told that euthanasia, of course, is killing, but if someone's willing to admit it, which when you have a serious conversation, you're forced to. But don't worry, it's out of compassion.

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So, let's think about that for a moment.

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Again, words are important. Compassion comes from the Latin. I studied just a little bit of Latin, but you know, lesson number three, you learned that

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kum means with. Okay, so compassion is with passion. Passion comes from the word to suffer.

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And so compassion means you're willing to suffer with euthanasia is not compassion.

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You know, uh, Pope Francis used to always repeat that we would have to be willing to like walk along the the the people in the margins and the suffering

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people. By definition here, if we are in favor of euthanasia, it's because we don't want to walk home.

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It's painful. Sometimes it it can be many years as Father Rob sister noted.

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And sometimes we like to have our schedule well planned because I I have some summer holidays I'm trying to sort of

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and if mom is sick I don't know what I'm going to do to go to my summer holiday. It gets in the way.

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And so it's precisely avoiding suffering with that makes us eliminate the one suffering rather than seek to eliminate the suffering itself withoutation.

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This of course is an icon of the good Samaritan where naturally the good Samaritan himself Jesus is telling the

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parable but the good Samaritan himself is is an image of our Lord of Christ and the inkeeper is an image of the church.

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So a few years ago when euthanasia was already starting to ramp up in Canada somewhat timely some I don't know if the

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Rome was listening to Canada's needs but um the congregation at the time was still the congregation now it's the dcastry for the doctrine of the faith

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issued this letter called bonus the good Samaritan on the care of persons in the critical and terminal

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phase of life very good for our topic this evening it says many things but in case there's any doubt it reaff

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reaffirms the teaching of the church for 2,000 years.

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The church finds it a necessity to reaffirm as definitive teaching, not one of these things that uh was just decided

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based on the weather that euthanasia is a crime against human life. And then it

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speaks to people who might surround the patients, people like doctors, maybe family members. Any formal or immediate

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material cooperation in such an act in Asia is a grave sin against human.

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And this is important because healthcare in Canada is public and we don't like

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when people who get paid with public dollars don't drink the Kool-Aid that every Canadian is supposed to drink, which clearly now means youth in Asia is wonderful and the more the better.

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So I this is more when I speak to physicians and healthcare workers that bring this up, but Catholic theology and or moral uh

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Catholic moral teaching uh sometimes, believe it or not, has finds great echoes in the Simpsons. I don't know if you put down a catechism, watch the Simpsons.

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And so in this episode, Homer, who is already quite a big guy, I think you all know, uh is seeking to get even bigger so that he could get some disability

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payments, something of the sort. Um, and so he goes to his physician, says that he wants help because he can't he's not succeeding to gain those last few pounds that would get him disability payments.

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Uh, so he needs help to get even bigger, less healthy. We all realize and Dr.

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says, "My god, that's monstrous. I've never heard of anything so negligent." I'll have no part of it. And when Homer says, "Can you recommend a doctor who

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belong?" This is what Catholic physicians for the record are asked to do by the CPSO. We are allowed not to kill you ourselves.

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But then come on, we have to send you promptly to the kind physician who will execute.

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Key takeaway number two, the church's magisterium is unequivocal. Any cooperation in euthania, which is the deliberate killing of a human person, is a grave violation of the law of God.

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Here we see Moses receiving Now suffering is not new.

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The great paradox is that actually it is in our current context of the last 20ish years that popularity of euthanasia

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first theoretically and now concretely uh sprung up in the western world. And yet it is in the last 30 40 years that

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we've become better and better and better at treating physical symptoms of illness. Right? we have a much better

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handle and a much broader array of pharmaceutical drugs to uh to treat physical pain in the middle ages.

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Needless to say, not so good. There was more pain, more physical suffering back then. No doubt. And yet there was not an

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outcry that suddenly we all needed euthanation.

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So it is a paradox. We have to recognize that as we are better at treating physical pain and we are simultaneously saying we absolutely must be able to

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enter life because of pain and there's a bit of a hypocrisy there which is one that I have to uh dispel as a physician

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and I assure you and this I'm being honest my colleagues who are not believers who are not opposed for many of them to euthanasia I was working in

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Toronto when this first came to be in 2016 were willing to say out loud in friendly

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conversation. Yeah, people should be allowed to this is their position that people should be allowed to die if they want to. But all this talk about uncontrolled suffering, this is utter

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nonsense. We're very good at controlling suffering.

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But the people I think at Dying Dignity had calculated that this would be a good way to present it to Indians. In this

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famous case, the Sue Rodriguez case, we learned the following published in the Glob and Mail, not in a super pro-

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Catholic biased right-wing uh I don't know what Miss Rodriguez had access to excellent palative care in the early

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1990s. Yet she wanted to live until she herself chose the moment of her death.

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piative care cannot provide that sense of control or choice and that is precisely what Mrs. Rodriguez forced.

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And I would argue that while there are many many different reasons why people end up asking for euthanasia,

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the wealthy powerful people for example in dying dignity who advocate for this are very

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much in this tank. Control, control, control, autonomy and control. The people who end up using it

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are much poorer, less knowledgeable, less wealthy and are in a different category altogether. But the people who have advocated that this is absolutely necessary for all Canadians.

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We're thinking exactly positive care effectively relieves physical pain, but it does not does not resolve existential suffering, right?

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And so you may still have you may still not like the image of yourself as a drooing person even if your physical

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pain is dealt with. You may have the belief that you do not have inherent dignity. Now I think our responsibility then is to show you that you do.

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But when a doctor is approached by a patient who says look at me look at how I used to be able to do all these things

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and now I can't. In this day and age, would you be surprised if a doctor can be like looking at them and says like, "Yeah, I kind of agree with you. That

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kind of sucks. I understand that you want to die. I don't want to die if I were because this is how we think now." Because we don't have three dimensions

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in our understanding of the human person. And we don't genuinely believe, many of us, not in this room, not in the church, but in the world that we belong

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to, we don't genuinely believe as a Canadian society that the poor and the sick and the frail are just as valuable

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as everyone else who is driving a nice car and owning a fancy house.

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Key takeaway number three, you enthusiasm for youth in nature does not arise from physical suffering, which is well managed by modern palative care. It

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arises from desire for control and from existential void, loneliness, loss of self-worth, grief, fear, and shame.

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Uh, I don't want to take too much time.

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This is the story. I mean, you know that in 2015 there was a Carter case. It's the Carter case that decriminalized euthanasia. Until then, if a doctor

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killed his patient with drugs, even if the patient was suffering, it was murder. It was homicide and it would

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have been under the criminal code. So the thought of having doctors being sent to jail for maintenance didn't sound too

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good once the Carter said you shouldn't allow this because apparently prohibiting it was contrary to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

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And just while we're at it, this is when the college this is in Ontario now. This is when the college of physicians and surgeons of Ontario decided to remove

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the protection the physicians uh for their conscience meaning no longer allow conscientious objection no longer

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allowed to say to a patient while absolutely it is within your rights to pursue this and I'm willing to

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accompany you in all sorts of other ways and explore other avenues of you this is one that I couldn't participate with with you. that would be much too harsh,

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judgmental, and probably in the fear-mongering uh world might prevent Mr. So and so or Mrs. so and so from um

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obtaining the uh quote unquote care that they obviously shouldn't

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made I will use exceptionally now uh has evolved very quickly such that the many guard rails that had been placed

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initially in keeping with the Carter case were promptly removed. So the judges of the Supreme Court when they

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decriminalized the homicide of patients who are suffering which came to be called made in Canada said well you're going to have

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to regulate this carefully and we did for 2 three years and then we started to remove these guards. Okay.

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So let's look um I mentioned here because this was very troubling in the field. First what

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started happening is that we simply stopped doing what the law was requiring.

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But do you remember when and no one was doing anything about it. Do you remember when like everyone kind of felt that cannabis was going to become legal? Like

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you could hardly find police officers who were going to go and like arrest people selling weed two years before we was legal.

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People can smell the air, not only cannabis.

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And so the same was true in this context. Youth in Asia is wonderful. We need more and more youth in Asia. we're

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not going to go and like sanction the insufficient number of doctors that we have who are providing this great

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service to Canadian society. So those who quote this is an actual quote this what we are doing i.e acting out beyond

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the boundaries of the law is not an expansion of our law but a maturation of our understanding of what we are doing.

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This is physicians that were doing things outside the scope of the law.

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Meaning not waiting the 10 days that they were supposed to wait for or perhaps doing it even though the patient was no longer fully capable which they

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were because they're supposed to be capable when you're making a request but also capable when it's being delivered to you. You can't at the time you

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couldn't euthanize someone who's not responsive, for example, because maybe they would have changed their mind if you could speak to them and perhaps

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their uh their physical suffering isn't the end of the world if they're not responsive right now. If they're basically sleepy

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um so eligibility criteria formally expanded. The practice was rapidly banalized.

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This is a Quebec superior court ruling deemed it unconstitutional. Once again, the constitution used uh in every

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direction that we would like. Uh unconstitutional that the death be deemed reasonably foreseeable. So this is a big one. People were initially told

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don't worry is only for people who are you know very advanced in their disease and they're basically going to die soon anyway and like what's the difference?

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palative care, euthanasia, maybe a few days difference, a few weeks different, but come on. Death had to be reasonably foreseeable. And now between you and I,

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every doctor and every lawyer, I'm told, was scratching their head like what is reasonably foreseeable?

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Are is your death, ma'am, not reasonably foreseeable? And yours like is it one year? Is it 3 months? Is it 10

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years? Like it's reasonably foreseeable that everyone in this room is going to die. Okay. So, it's an absurd and and then like you're you're saying like this will be the guard.

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As much as silly as a 3mon duration would have been because it would have been super arbitrary. We can all appreciate it would have at least forced

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doctors to write on a chart. My professional opinion is that this patient will die of a natural cause within 3 months. Now, you don't even have to do that. All I have to say is

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it's reasonably foreseeable. But that was still kind of annoying. So that was scratched by the uh so if someone has

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morbid obesity and they want to die they can now ask for it started with case but that has been expanded. Okay. So, some

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of the safeguards, there was a minimum 10day reflection period. That's gone.

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There was protection against possible coercion through two independent witnesses. That's gone. There was the ability to withdraw consent, as I was saying, at any time prior to receiving the procedure.

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And therefore, the need to remain. It's not that you can't say no. Of course, if you change your mind, your life's changing. But if you become unconscious now, to add, you signed the paper the other day. So, we'll proceed.

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uh and then there was the notion of the need for two independent physicians acting as made assessors. But then the experience has also taught us something

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else. The maid assessor community is a very small community. There are not that many doctors who do mate assessments.

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And uh how can I say this? Like you know if there are three mechanics working in a shop and one told you that your engine

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needs to be changed and there are three friends do you think that the other mechanic is going to tell you that the engine doesn't need to be changed even if suddenly he's like oh I think the

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first engine just needs a tightening of that bolt. It would make the other the other mechanic look pretty bad.

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Independence is the key word here. Highly debatable.

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In March 2021, Parliament revised the elig eligibility criteria. That's the IDSL. There you go. French Canadian. It

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removed the requirement that natural death be reasonably perceivable. This was the nationalization of the beautiful tush idea, the Quebec one, and

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introduced a twotrack approach. So that now there's two types of mate. This is different from what I was saying earlier. There's also two ways of

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administering meat, right? So either that in hospital injection or on the mountaintop pills that you bought at the pharmacy. But there's also two tracks.

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The idea being here either you're someone with a reasonably foreseeable death in which case we can take care of you very quickly or your death is absolutely not reasonably foreseeable.

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Don't worry, we we are compassionate people. We will still look after you and eliminate you soon enough, but 6 months right now is how long it's going to take

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us. Okay? Forgive me for some of the um cynical comments I make. That is a defense mechanism. Uh otherwise, I've got more tears in my eyes.

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It's appropriate. Yes, it is. It is.

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Um I can't have tears in my eyes every slide. Okay. So, um it would get boring for you guys.

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The Okay. So, who gets track? That is to say, who gets the main that is not for people who are likely to die soon?

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We have data now. Younger patients, it's not that they are more likely than to be clear, it's not that they're they are

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there are more 18 to 59 than the elderly. It's just that the ratio of 18 to 59 is much higher in track 2. Okay?

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Predominantly women, which is not the case in track 1, disproportionately poor and socially marginalized. And you've

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heard on CBC and even Toronto um Toronto Star again not known to be the most Catholic newspaper in the country

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point the finger at this problem because people who are living in terrible housing situations people who are very poor who are realizing that amidst their

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disability there's basically no public services for them very minimal public services such that they would live in like quasi you know sub third world

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conditions they despair and they realized there's still the option of the exit button which is this

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and so they asked for it. Um and of course we provided for them but then the the really shameful data which

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kudos to CDC for being willing to point this out only 8.6% of these people who had received track 2 were offered

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housing support and only 6% were offered financial assistance.

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Needless to say, track tomate is much less expensive than long-term financial assistance to someone who is poor and living with a disability.

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U much of that slide is repeated I guess for some reason but in the bottom right from a secular lens you may explore the notion of luxury belief. So my wife listens to all these podcasts where she

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tells me a lot about what the cool people know about that I don't know about. And um the even in the

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non-Christian world, people are starting to realize that there's a number of these things that like are believed by

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many but then misused by the poor. and the the you know the the social destruction that comes from uh the the

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the widespread use of abortion for example well surprise surprise will affect you know women in poor uh

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African-American neighborhoods of some poor US city more so it'll have a more uh destructive uh consequence on these

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types of communities than the wealthy neighborhoods of Hollywood

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Right? Abortion will take place in both locations. But the impact on the social fabric is different among the socially marginalized.

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A choice for the privileged remember who is advocating that we need youth in Asia in Canada becomes a burden for the vulnerable. Interesting. This is very

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very I think there this may be one of the it's not in terms of like uh studying our society. I think this is a very important point. It's not directly

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church teaching u so I didn't emphasize it but if you're trying to understand this may be a way to speak to your friends who are not Christians about why

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euthanasia is so wrong but hopefully they can also come to believe that they were created in the image likeness of God and that matters otherwise no life

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matters bill 11 pronounced in June 2023 and implemented in 2024 in the province of

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Quebec defines the clients In medicine, it's always very striking when the word clients comes up. We tend

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to call people patients in medicine, but maybe the government sees them differently. The clients who are eligible to make an advanced request for

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medical aid in dying. Okay. And the um

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the and here this was also the bill in which they enforced potted care homes in Quebec, even those that have clearly been run by say nuns for the last 100

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years. Uh basically if you want to continue being a part of care home in Quebec, you need to drink Kool-Aid.

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Until then, there have been institutional protections.

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Uh and this is being fought by the Archbishop of Montreal.

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I don't know where that legal battle is, but needless to say, um it's it's an uphill battle.

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These are some of the numbers. We mentioned that Canada has the most rapid rise. This was mentioned as the statistics earlier. These are some of the numbers. 2019 somewhere between 5,000 and 6,000. 2020 around 7,000.

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These is the number of people dying of made being killed. Uh nearly 10,000 in 2021, 13,000 and the rate. The It's

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interesting in the documents where the statistics Canada presents this. They are very quick to reassure you. I don't

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think they like the advertisement that we have the fastest growing rate of youth in Asia. That does it's not very good PR. So they're very quick to

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reassurance. Don't worry, our rate of increase is reducing. So we're still increasing of course every year, but our

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rate of increasing in 10 years we might start to plateau is the is the news that we're told. That's why we shouldn't

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worry even though by then we will have far surpassed the Netherlands and we will be by far leading because we're very close to Netherlands as a country

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already. I mean Quebec as a region is already world leading but uh the gold medal is for us. We're coming on the

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horizon. Progress always means more. You cannot be static in the progressive mindset. It's not

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enough to have, you know, what was the battle of the 60s is no longer the battle of the '9s. And it's certainly not the battle of the 2020s.

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So now we are moving toward native by death directive so that you can say ahead of time well when I'm diagnosed

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with dementia maybe by the time it's moderate severity come and take care of me I might not be legally capable of saying anything to my lawyers at that

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point but I want to make sure ahead of time that no one would ever put me in a terrible situation where I am not eliminated promptly when that diagnosis

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is made. We also I mean in medicine in Canada anytime you're deemed capable regardless of your age you can do you

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can ask your doctors to do onto you whatever adults uh can do right there's no pediatrics looks after kids and intro

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medicine looks after people above the age of 18 but legally speaking uh whether you can vote or not does not

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change whether you can ask for procedures or not and that's why the 12-year-old girl who asked her family position for the birth control pill. If

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the family physician deems that the young girl understands, the young woman understands the implications, no other family members need to be involved in

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that conversation, uh, and the prescription is given. But likewise, if that 12-year-old girl feels that her life is not worth living because she

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suffers from the same kind of illnesses that some of the older patients evoke track two for, that is to say, for

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example, morbid obesity. Um what uh who are we to uh block this 12-year-old girl

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from requesting track 2 made to end her suffering? And what how could

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we be so cruel as to limit her from making that request?

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And what has also come back to the news a few times is this promise that we were made that mental health patients with a

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pure mental health diagnosis will also be allowed to uh request. You may remember the the character I showed

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earlier about the uh the u the wheel the person in a wheelchair and the assisted

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death had a whereas there were steps up to the suicide prevention.

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How is this coming to be? Why is this happening? Why is society changing this way? I mean this is again I'm just sharing some thoughts. This is not a

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sermon. Um the BFJ, the British Medical Journal actually looked at this. they were interested to know how Canadians are are behaving in a way that's kind of

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like that's like up there even for the uh the Europeans. And so we discover

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that when we review you know thousands and thousands and thousands of newspapers portrayals of positions rule uh we discover that although religious

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groups and many physicians oppose maid the new newspaper uh in Canada right

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this is the paper news and not that's what the the study you look at primarily focus all of their publications on

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portraying n developments positively so the media for the last 30 years has been painting a posit positive picture of this compassion procedure to Canadians

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and surprise surprise they have achieved the brainwashing that they wanted and so now we are as a society quite convinced that if my dog can receive euthanasia

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out of compassion well why can't mom you know um and uh this represents framing

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asymmetry meaning the the newspaper this even the BMJ again not a publication out of the Vatican but the British medical

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journal tells tells us that hm Canadian media seems to have really done a lot of framing east asymmetry talking about like some of the positives but really not framing a lot of the problems that

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come with youth in Asia in a fair way leaving us Canadians with a lot of knowledge gaps and limited depth of

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debate like I mean seriously this is Canadian society there's no such thing as debate anymore I mean obviously social media you're allowed to insult

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your opponent and three sentences like if if you have more than two sentences of comments to make you're talking too long stop right Now um the debate is

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over and you're and you're racist

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echo someone's comment and I was told my father the troublemaker group we we love everyone

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key takeaway number four in less than a decade in Canada youth nation has moved from decriminalization right so we we barely took it out of the fact that

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you're going to jail for years and years and years for doing to normalization and now active promotion. We can't have enough of it.

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It's great. We should give it to people with mental health. We should give it to kids. We should get more of this. And don't worry, we're getting more. The

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pro-life perspective has been marginalized. In fact, like let's be honest, when some of us are walking in the streets of Ottawa

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tomorrow for the March for Life, the world looks at us like we have three heads. Like we are the most backward

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crazy people that you can imagine. You say, "Oh, but come on. Most of there's so many Christians in Canada. There's many Catholics in Canada.

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We are not taking our faith nearly seriously enough. We are not communicating a message nearly comp in a nearly compelling." Okay, again French.

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Okay. Our message is not compelling enough and we have not been able to reach people certainly through the media and

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we are not wellformed. If ever someone comes to us, we don't always have the right words to discuss this situation.

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But this is also not just a question of ideas and we'll get to them because there is the intellectual debate, but there's more than just an intellectual

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debate. And in some ways, I think the second part is actually more important and more compelling for the world. Now I want to say two three words about this

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aspect because actually in the hospital when I do deal with Christians that come to the hospital often Catholics

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of course all of healthcare is seen as the great evil. You can't trust your doctor cuz maybe they want to just throw euthanasia at you. Um and we even things

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that are totally uh in line with Catholic teaching are feared by good Catholics who come to the hospital.

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Okay, this is the reality. So, I want to speak a little bit about that because I'm hoping that when you see me with my lab coat and not with my cassic, you

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won't be afraid of me if I talk about certain things that might actually be that. Sorry, I thought for a moment. No,

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no. Your question will certainly be encouraged if if it's needed now. Yes. Or otherwise later.

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So, in his gospel entitled, St. John Paul II used terms that are I

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think now very much the cornerstone of Catholic bioeththics speaking of disproportionate means and extraordinary means.

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Certain things that we can do at the end of life that might make sense in some circumstances are exaggerated in other circumstances

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and are not to be offered in all circumstances. We are not supposed to all die after attempts of cardopulinary resuscitation intubated with a

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ventilator trying to force air into our lungs so that we can stay alive for a few extra minutes. That is not what the church is saying. Now at the same time

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these things can be very reasonable to some people 45year-old man has a heart

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attack. All these things, the the CPR, the defibrillation, the rushing, the intubation, all that can make sense and

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can be life- saving. Though it's not like the movies like a little romantic on that point, but it's also not something that we

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should all be subjected to on our deathbed. In fact, there is no such thing as dying peacefully, which the

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church is very much in favor of with CPR, intubation, all these things, if that's necessarily part of the cocktail at the end. And in a hospital setting,

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these things are default unless we have a conversation. Usually, not a super joyful one cuz we're talking about what are we going to do when your heart

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stops? No. Um, but an important one so that we can in the right circumstances allow people to have a peaceful natural

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death. That is of course not at all talking about hastening death. It's about not doing super extraordinary things. to use John Paul the second word

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extraordinary means at the time this is not

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the word the bad the word DNR is a very bad word which is all framed upside down it means do not resuscitate so it's just

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like bad uh presentation all together people are asked do you want us not to resuscitate you

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which of course sounds like do you want less best care. Do you want the full package or do you want the cheap package? You're not Don't worry, you didn't pay for resuscitation.

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It's neglig another threeletter acronym. Allow

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natural death, which I think is a much better way to present this very idea. Okay, it is totally reasonable.

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Okay, I was going to say and then if I say if you're a 90 year old person with you know advanced cancer not to be you know I'm not being agist or fighting

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against cancer but I'm just taking an example here probably if you're in hospital with advanced disease

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loss of coorbidities the idea of subjecting you to very aggressive risk session would not be appropriate they

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would be extremely unlikely to succeed at all but even if they succeed in the short term that might just mean an extra two days on and in intubated and is

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still dying of course because you've done nothing to the cancer at checker point. So forgive me for getting a little bit in a tangent, but I think it's important because I often get questions at the end about some of the

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stress that because you basically can't show up at the hospital and not be asked often by an awkward resident or medical student or nurse about like do you want

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everything done or or do you want us to to uh like you know let you die when you die? Maybe you go.

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Okay, maybe that's that's the second year resident thing like the best I've heard like my poor residents

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I I heard lots of versions but yes okay make a comfortable. So ultimately it's important to understand what they're trying to say which they often don't

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communicate clearly even to the secular ear and also how that fits in with Canadian healthcare and there are people in healthcare who don't truly understand

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what this is either and who might actually think oh they're DNR so maybe we shouldn't do the surgery for their appendicitis which is completely absurd

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it has nothing to do with anything but people in healthcare like the guy who had slipped over his are not invalid

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okay So there you go. I'll skip that for now. We can address in my tradition, which by the way, and I think Father Rob

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will forgive me if I say at 6 p.m. on Saturday nights for those of you who attend church on Sunday because there's probably, you know, an anticipated mass,

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but 6 p.m. Saturday evening, we always have a great fest at St. John the Baptist. You're all invited. And we say in the long litany of petitions that is

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normally said by the deacon for among many others, for a Christian end to our lives, one that is painless, unashamed, and peaceful. And for a good defense of

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the awesome tribunal of Christ, let us ask. And we answer, "Grant this, O Lord." It is okay to ask the Lord for a painless, unashamed, peaceful death.

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Right? We don't all need to be intubated at the end. Perhaps that will some of us will be, but it's okay to ask for

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peaceful, which does not mean euthanasia. Not the same thing. Okay. What is pal of care?

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Another thing that is not the same thing as euthanasia.

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P of care provides specialized medical care for people with serious illness. It focuses on relieving symptoms and

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reducing the stress of disease. It aims to improve quality of life for both patients and their caregivers and their families.

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Pilot of care is not a place very often people think oh like oh you talk about pilot so are you going to send me to a pilot of care unit or to a hospice and

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of course p of care can be offered in a pilot of care units but pilot of care could be offered at home pilot of care is not exclusively given to people who

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will never be healed palative care is not synonymous with imminent death okay it is a field of medicine that focuses

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on alleviating the suffering the symptoms of the illst Sometimes the symptoms of the treatment much progress

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has been done. You know the terrible nausea and vomiting that can occur with chemotherapy regimen. We are now much better at treating thanks to palative

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care advances in parallel with oncologic science that brought on all these terrible poisons which are more terrible for the cancer than it is for you but

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it's still potentially quite unpleasant right and so um this is important to understand and of course pal care is

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completely in keeping with the church's teaching

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back to this document bonus we read in that document pilot of care is an authentic expression. So it it basically

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the document starts by saying as I said earlier youth in Asia is wrong. But then what what what can we do then? Pilot

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care is an authentic expression of the human and Christian activity of providing care the tangible simp symbol

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of the compassionate remaining at the side of the suffering person. Remember that word compassion that I spent some

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time. So that is suffering with that is being walking alongside the suffering

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one even when it's difficult even when there's some anxiety somewhere like how

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long is this going to I don't it can be uncomfortable sometimes you don't know a conversation to have the on day 10 perhaps right and that's okay

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that's okay we walk together some with all the brokenness that we have and we see And of course we address the fact

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that the suffering is not purely physical. Yes, we have drugs but so much of what is needed is around care. That's

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when the village and the community become so important and around an attentive ear, right? A loving presence.

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those who are enthusiastic with euthanasia and who are trying to convince the world

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like Kaiso and the devil that the uh that euthanasia is a Kool-Aid that we should all be drinking have a vested

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interest in blurring the lines between palative care and euthanasia and of course there are pedare doctors out there who have no problem with

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euthanasia though these are different fields right by and large any traditional palative care doctor certain

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still many of The younger ones see it as two completely different field that shouldn't talk in the Canadian context. They are forced

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to talk more and more but the conceptually they remain different but you can see again it's too small

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here but you can see how some guy here we see in the bottom right p of care and in the same little box p of care and

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then the second bullet euthanasia or me because it's of course using the good good lingo u is presented as being part

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of the p of care bullet that is a lie okay should patients with Parkinson's disease have of care absolutely should they be offered euthanasia I'll let you

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decide key takeaway number five of care seek to relieve sufferings throughout illness throughout the illness while providing

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compassionate appropriate human support and when practiced authentically it is not only compatible with but actively encouraged by the magisterium I hope I'm

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not taking too much of your time you know our liturgies in the Byzantine world are way too long I mean I love it that way but you might find it hard the first time you come even though you're

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still invited 60 and I'll tell you uh the uh that's the best person is an

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hourish just so you know uh when you come you won't cry there are many ways that we can learn

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more about this I wanted to point out the fact that our Canadian uh Catholic bishops have launched this thing called horizons of hope which parishes can take

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on maybe this is something your pro-life group locally uh could do it's it's meant to help parishes not only learn about the realities of youth in Asia as

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we're kind of doing this evening, but also equip the community to see how we can support each other better. Uh, not

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only by knowing the name of that other parishioner that you always see, but you don't really ask their name cuz like it might be weird to like say hi to someone

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at church. um the but also be so yes we need to build a much more tighterk knit

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Christian community but also uh how we can uh how we can support the the sick people in our parish and hopefully even

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beyond. Um the in the time of our Lord there were these lepers that were shift you know placed in these external things

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with walls and that no one had to worry about because that was gross and legitimately you know a concern that they would get infected.

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We we can cure leprosy today. So we we can't necessarily relate exactly to this icon where we see lepers no there's

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actually an antibiotic in this salt but it's actually not solved because we have new lepers. We have the new people that

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we've built walls around and that we don't really want to see and we even less want to waste our Saturday afternoons visiting. Okay, these are people in the long-term care facilities.

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These are people in hospitals perhaps.

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These are people in retirement homes that don't have families and don't have friends and don't have visitors. I be honest with you, you know, I round and I

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see my patients and I have my own family like at 5:00 p.m. 5:30 I start to look at my like I I've been in the hospital for many hours. I think, okay, it's time

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for me to go back home. I cannot stay with my patients all day. And I don't I'm not I think I show Mother Teresa that I'm not Mother Teresa.

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But it breaks my heart when I realize that I'm the only visitor that my parents, not my patients, sorry, receive.

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It isn't right. There's no way that we can frame our Canadian society to be a good society when we have people who are suffering with their physical illness

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and who have no loving voice. Only the people who are paid to see them see them. I have no merit to visit the sick.

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The Lord says go visit the sick, but I can't take any merit because I build him. Okay, I'm sharing this with you crass. In truth, like that is not like

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the Lord asked more of me. Hopefully I do a little bit this way, but the the point is please please God, let's let us all find ways to help our society to

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rebuild the village where we can help the neighbor. Right?

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These are the new outcasts and we have examples modern examples like St. Mother Teresa who show us how to be like the

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great physician of soul and body our lord Jesus Christ right who himself shared and as I said this is the full

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icon now you see the you see the good Samaritan healing the wounds uh and carrying and then giving the two

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coins to the inkeeper and I said the inkeeper when when St. John Christristen talks about this parable. He says, "We the church are the inkeeper." And in

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fact, if you look at the vestments of the inkeeper, they're just like our priest. We a priest. This is like a chazible. It isn't the chazible. If you look the

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the we the church have to show the world that we care for the ones that are forgotten by the others. So that they

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cannot say no one loves me. And until we can show them that we love them, all the rhetoric around this is a sin, you know,

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this is wrong, not enough. It it starts by recognizing that they have inherent dignity. But that is a call to action for us to go and show them love.

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In Matthew 25, the Lord says, "For I was sick and you visited me. Truly, I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of

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mine, you did for me." Right? And this is a passage that no one can read.

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Atheist, non-believer, no one can read this and not be moved because deep down everyone wants this to be true. But they need the Christians to show them that it is true.

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This is another picture of a visiting parish because we like to prostrate a

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lot in Lent and we have long service. As I said, obviously this has to be rooted in prayer and fasting. This is what

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every every Christian endeavor starts with prayer and fasting. And it's the Lord who gives us the strength to follow his example. We do not have the

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strength. All the gym won't give you the strength. Only the Lord will give you the strength. And there's this this is

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timely because tomorrow is the March for Life. But I I I don't one of the ways to do this. It's certainly not the only way is Yes. And deacon he reminds us of this

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whenever he's present for these talks that one of the ways that we should do this is we should like mention to our elected leaders that this issue matters.

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I said I lamented in my talk that the media is not presenting this enough and that's true and certainly the political

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elites can ignore this issue if only you know less than a handful of Canadians makes a stink of it.

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Key takeaway number six, youth in Asia is first and foremost I'm crying for help. I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came to me. Let us commit ourselves, organize ourselves and

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visit the sick and the abandoned. And this I think really does start in the parish. If I'm not attacking this particular parish, I look at my own. If

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within our own parish we are not good at visiting the sick, and I know that in my parish, we're not that good at visiting the sick, then we're far from the mark

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of visiting the other people who don't belong to this parish, of which there are many, right?

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Let us defend life from conception to natural death. Let us share the good news for the life of the world.

 Wow, what a BRILLIANT  Speaker. Unfortunately, it wasn't livestreamed, but Pat recorded it, so hopefully I will have that later

Unfortunately it wasn't livestreamed but Pat recorded it so the recording will be coming later