{"id":11947,"date":"2025-05-22T08:07:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=11947"},"modified":"2025-05-22T08:13:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:13:02","slug":"radio-show-host-says-mentally-ill-people-should-be-euthanized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/radio-show-host-says-mentally-ill-people-should-be-euthanized\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Show Host Says Mentally Ill People Should be Euthanized"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This just isn&#8217;t a radio show host, but an operative messaging what Canada wants to do. The interesting part is the government runs in such a way to make the citizens unhappy, and then persuade you to off yourself so they don&#8217;t have to take care of you. This is an OCGFC plan, and when you look at Utopian books promulgating the strategy, they really want this for all the people that are no longer useful to them. A <a href=\"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?s=maid+canada&amp;ct_post_type=post%3Apage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">search of my site<\/a> reveals several articles about euthanasia in Canada, and they&#8217;re even starting to advocate for harvesting organs and using that procedure to do the murdering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2025\/05\/21\/radio-show-host-says-mentally-ill-people-should-be-euthanized\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2025\/05\/21\/radio-show-host-says-mentally-ill-people-should-be-euthanized\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ub-divider ub_divider ub-divider-orientation-horizontal\" id=\"ub_divider_1572a611-b359-42b1-ba55-1de840018b67\"><div class=\"ub_divider_wrapper\" style=\"position: relative; margin-bottom: 2px; width: 100%; height: 2px; \" data-divider-alignment=\"center\"><div class=\"ub_divider_line\" style=\"border-top: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 2px; \"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>By Alex Schadenberg <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/lucfernandez.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tristan Hopper&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/first-reading-quebec-radio-host-says-assisted-suicide-is-solution-for-the-mentally-ill\">reported for the National Post<\/a>&nbsp;on May 21 that Luc Fernandez, who co-hosts a radio talk show on 98.5 Montreal told his audience, on May 15 in French that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>doctor-assisted suicide could be a form of \u201cliberation\u201d for the mentally ill.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Hopper reported that Fernandez also stated that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Quebec should enshrine \u201ccomit\u00e9 de sages\u201d (committees of experts) to authorize assisted suicide \u201cin cases where, for example, someone no longer has any parents, people who were abandoned \u2026 people who no longer receive visits \u2026 no longer have any joy in life, they have no more interest in living, who live in permanent suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Montr\u00e9al disability rights group&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/rapliq.org\/en\/accomplices-to-a-eugenic-ideology-shame-on-the-airwaves-disgusted-appalled-angry\/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR7LyQN7Zbz5zO5Xq3TbPrMiEphn_hXU9n9hBKEZ33Vhe59Nh_kYUpvaFA16kw_aem_qfLyhgKIg24mEqa3Owj9rQ\">RAPLIQ<\/a>&nbsp;responded by accusing Ferrandez of promoting a eugenic ideology and stated:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cTo speak of euthanasia with logistical calm, as if it were a measure of social efficiency, is to deny the value of different lives,\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cIt is to slip down a eugenic slope, the very same that has led history into the abyss.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not the first time Ferrandez has made comments about euthanasia. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/quebec-politician-says-that-you-should-be-able-to-commit-suicide-if-youre-worried-about-climate-change\/\">Post Millennial reported<\/a>&nbsp;on December 3, 2019 that Ferrandez wrote on his facebook page, concerning euthanasia for climate change that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cCould we, for environmental, social and economic reasons, decide that we want to receive help to die so as not to be a burden for our family and society in general?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Ferrandez\u2019s recent comments were made while discussing the story of \u201cFlorence\u201d\u00a0an intellectually disabled 24-year-old woman who was profiled in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lapresse.ca\/actualites\/etablissement-leclerc\/au-trou-pour-avoir-vole-de-la-nourriture\/2025-05-15\/la-prison-n-est-pas-sa-place.php\">story by Le Presse<\/a>. Hopper reports:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Florence, not her real name, was held in solitary confinement for eight days at Quebec\u2019s Leclerc Institution following a perennial failure by Quebec health authorities to place her in an institution that suited her needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Florence is described as having the mental capacity of a small child, and suffers from Prader\u2013Willi syndrome, a rare genetic condition in which the sufferer always feels hungry.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Florence\u2019s story outlines the abusive care that she receives in Qu\u00e9bec.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hopper explains how Ferrandez responded to the \u201cFlorence\u201d story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Mid-way through Thursday\u2019s segment on the case, Ferrandez suggests that Florence\u2019s mother should have the right to end her daughter\u2019s life via doctor-assisted suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHow does the law have the right to say \u2018no\u2019? How does the state have the right to say \u2018no\u2019?\u201d he said, to agreement from Normandeau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that in extreme disability cases, the only medical solution is to \u201cfreeze\u201d a patient in bed, and that death could be seen as \u201ca way to end their pain.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>RAPLIQ&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/rapliq.org\/en\/accomplices-to-a-eugenic-ideology-shame-on-the-airwaves-disgusted-appalled-angry\/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR7LyQN7Zbz5zO5Xq3TbPrMiEphn_hXU9n9hBKEZ33Vhe59Nh_kYUpvaFA16kw_aem_qfLyhgKIg24mEqa3Owj9rQ\">responded by stating<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>No to the trivialization of death as a \u201csocial solution.\u201d<br>No to this false compassion that hides a deep contempt.<br>No to this morbid fantasy of liberation which is nothing but a shameful surrender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Disability is part of the human condition.<br>It is not a virus to eradicate.<br>It is not a problem to be solved through erasure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To reject disabled people is to reject one\u2019s own humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We choose, for Florence and for all the others:<br>Solidarity, not suppression.<br>Adaptation, not abandonment.<br>Dignity, not disappearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quebec can do better. Quebec must do better.<br>Solutions exist \u2014 here and elsewhere. What\u2019s lacking is courage.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Ferrandez is a former mayor of the Montreal borough of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal. He co-hosts a daily three-hour talk show with Nathalie Normandeau, a former deputy premier under the Quebec Liberal government of Jean Charest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada approved euthanasia for mental illness alone and has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/alexschadenberg.blogspot.com\/2024\/02\/the-federal-government-proposes-to.html\">scheduled to implement it on March 17, 2027<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On March 21, 2025 the<a href=\"https:\/\/alexschadenberg.blogspot.com\/2025\/03\/united-nations-committee-directs-canada.html\">&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/alexschadenberg.blogspot.com\/2025\/03\/united-nations-committee-directs-canada.html\">Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Committee report<\/a>&nbsp;urged Canada\u2019s federal government to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Repeal Track 2 Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), including the 2027 commencement of Track 2 MAiD for persons whose \u201csole underlying medical condition is a mental illness\u201d;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Not support proposals for the expansion of MAiD to include \u201cmature minors\u201d and through advance requests;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Qu\u00e9bec has the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/alexschadenberg.blogspot.com\/2025\/02\/canadas-euthanasia-deaths-continue-to.html\">highest euthanasia rate in Canada at 7.6% of all deaths<\/a>&nbsp;in 2024. Recently a Qu\u00e9bec coroner\u2019s inquest has investigated the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/alexschadenberg.blogspot.com\/2025\/05\/quebec-man-died-by-euthanasia-because.html\">death of Normand Meunier<\/a>, a quadriplegic man who died by euthanasia on March 29, 2024 after developing bedsores from a lack of basic medical care.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/alexschadenberg.blogspot.com\/2024\/09\/quebec-approves-euthanasia-by-advanced.html\">Qu\u00e9bec expanded it\u2019s euthanasia regime<\/a>&nbsp;on October 30, 2024 by permitting euthanasia by advance request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>LifeNews.com Note: Alex Schadenberg is the executive director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epcc.ca\/\">Euthanasia Prevention Coalition<\/a> and you can read his <a href=\"https:\/\/alexschadenberg.blogspot.ca\/\">blog<\/a> here.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just isn&#8217;t a radio show host, but an operative messaging what Canada wants to do. The interesting part is the government runs in such a way to make the citizens unhappy, and then persuade you to off yourself so they don&#8217;t have to take care of you. This is an OCGFC plan, and when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11947"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11951,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11947\/revisions\/11951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}