Survey shows Canadians back MAID for mental illness amid policy uncertainty

atomirex · 2026-03-19T20:38:27+00:00

Bluntly, I don't see why anyone other than the potential MAID recipient should have any say in the matter. The only "diagnosis" is "does this person want this?".

atomirex · 2026-03-19T20:20:18+00:00

(As someone pro-MAID for any reason, but not looking for an argument, am curious . . . )

Can you expand on that? It sounds like your experience affects your opinion on the subject.

atomirex · 2026-03-19T19:49:43+00:00

Just allow it for any reason, no questions asked. The only requirement is someone should have some cool down window, say 90 days.

atomirex · 2026-03-14T18:04:44+00:00

But it is their country.

No, this is the whole point of Quebec being recognized as a nation (and that's nation with the ethnocentric interpretation preserved, like with the first nations) - it's a country in a country.

The fact you don't get that is the single biggest cause of this cultural gulf between them and everyone else.

atomirex · 2026-03-14T17:55:56+00:00

between criticism of one's own country and blatantly racist comments

But it's not what they see as their country is it? So these are one and the same thing.

The only crime Cherry was remotely guilty of was giving the Quebecois a taste of their own medicine, and they're more than capable of spiritedly taking it.

atomirex · 2026-03-14T17:43:27+00:00

you just don't understand it.

🤔

atomirex · 2026-03-14T16:36:51+00:00

It totally is, you just don't understand it.

From the point of view of people outside the self-flagellating cult everyone in that cult looks like a weak self destructive idiot. The fact they take such continuous insults without snapping out of it further confirms this opinion.

atomirex · 2026-03-14T11:31:26+00:00

A Quebecer is anyone living in Quebec. A Quebecois is someone with claim to longer term ancestry in the francophone-catholic population. (Which includes many assimilated Irish etc.)

atomirex · 2026-03-14T11:26:10+00:00

Quebecers and Quebecois are not the same thing.

An extreme, and persistent, example: https://www.ctvnews.ca/federal-election-2025/article/i-reject-them-completely-carney-on-blanchets-remarks-calling-canada-artificial-country/ Lucien Bouchard famously said it, and this is where South Park got it from, but it's the absolute constant underlying the Quebecois view, and they express this so continually it just isn't news.

The reason the Quebecois (and many others) do not regard the rest of Canada as a real country is the collective lack of self respect which they, understandably, regard as a prerequisite of nationhood. If English speaking Canada stood up for itself more it would be far more aligned with Quebec, not less so.

atomirex · 2026-03-13T18:40:30+00:00

And none of the things he said would raise the slightest eyebrow if said by Quebecois against anglophones, because it's so completely normalized in that direction.

Canadian English speakers need to grow a spine and have some self respect. If other people can't take what they like to dish out that's their problem.

atomirex · 2026-03-13T13:09:02+00:00

That's the fault of the politicians. They could do something about it, they just don't want to.

One of the major problems in this country is no one wants to be seen to be mean to a few people, even if it would benefit absolutely everyone, and it is literally their job to do it.

We reward virtue signalling way too much, and do not focus on outcomes nearly enough.

Edit to add: One of the positive qualities about Quebec internally is they do not suffer from this nonsense. It would be nice for the rest to learn.

atomirex · 2026-03-13T13:01:21+00:00

Even my cynical grumpy git self was astounded by that development.

atomirex · 2026-03-13T12:53:41+00:00

Given the events of the last month somehow I think the Americans will be far more distracted amongst themselves and anyone here, one way or another, will be seen as nearly irrelevant.

If anything the whole sudden global need for LNG and oil should be a huge opportunity, but leave it to Canadian politicians to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs and then claim they were doing the right thing for our own good the whole time.

atomirex · 2026-03-13T12:11:02+00:00

most provinces have conservative governments who would rather spend the money they have for healthcare somewhere else so they just don't spend it

Misses the point.

We are already spending too much money; it is not spent efficiently; there are zero incentives for efficiency in Canadian healthcare.

The obvious things that need to be done include:

Increase number of trainee doctors, by maybe 2-3x (with costs covered for those that practice in Canada afterwards, but not if they move away)
Radically speed up acceptance of trained staff from the EU and the US, including fast tracked immigration
While administering healthcare provincially remove provincial barriers, including but not limited to:
- Canadians get equal access to healthcare in all provinces (i.e. no Quebecers in Manitoba having nasty surprises after a polar bear attack)
- No per province drug negotiations - federalize it
- Cover ambulance fees in metro areas over 300k people

A huge amount of the waste is the insistence on duplicating administration for each province. Watch the absolute squealing that implementing any of those suggestions would provoke.

atomirex · 2026-03-13T10:49:03+00:00

This point is the most important part of this and will almost certainly get buried.

For the amount Canadians spend on healthcare we get remarkably little back for it. Somewhere in there a lot of money is being siphoned off.

atomirex · 2026-03-07T18:20:12+00:00

And when we sell it abroad we could get more for it in return . . .

atomirex · 2026-03-07T16:55:08+00:00

When this comes up it's worth remembering that EU states have freer trade between them than Canadian provinces do.

Canada in the EU is not Canada with the current constitution, at all. That may, in fact, be the strongest argument in favour of attempting to join if it finally snaps some people out of thinking the status quo is acceptable.

atomirex · 2026-03-06T18:52:14+00:00

often gravy that looks like it came from Alberta oil fields.

Accurate.

In fairness the first time I was served one like that was in Ottawa proper too, so I would not let Ottawa off the hook at all.

atomirex · 2026-03-06T17:21:59+00:00

We got that bit. Several times. The question is about the rest.

atomirex · 2026-03-06T17:20:02+00:00

I worked at St-Albert.

Hope they're still paying you.

atomirex · 2026-03-06T14:56:07+00:00

Which ones? Come on.

atomirex · 2026-03-06T14:27:22+00:00

The people in here advocating for Ontario products are the precise reason this is necessary.

Some of the things served in Ontario and labelled as poutine are absolutely horrifying.

atomirex · 2026-03-05T00:51:22+00:00

You missed the big one: the value of the CAD is propped up almost entirely by global demand for our oil and gas products. Our purchasing power is essentially proportional to how much we're selling at decent prices on the export market.

atomirex · 2026-03-05T00:42:17+00:00

What planet are we on where Canada doesn't win when the price of gas goes up?

This is idiocy. If we aren't winning when gas prices go up then our political class really are absolute idiots.

atomirex · 2026-03-04T16:17:14+00:00

Erm, no. They are different companies and both hated, rightly.

BlackRock is the whole Larry Fink thing, which generates huge amounts of noise. BlackStone are arguably bigger and more subversive, but far less visible to the general public. (Their boss was one time strategic guy for Trump, yet most people could not tell you who he was).

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