The Pattern — How State-Sanctioned Killing Programs Expand
The Pattern — How State-Sanctioned Killing Programs Expand. Sourced file on t4 comparison — open the primary instruments cited on the page, not the summary alone.
“Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” — George Santayana
═══════════════════════ SECTION 1: STAGES ═══════════════════════Section 1 — The Stages of Expansion: Side by Side
| Stage | Aktion T4 (1939–1945) | Canada MAID (2016–present) |
|---|---|---|
| 1Framing |
“Life unworthy of life” (Lebensunwertes Leben) — framed as mercy for the suffering.
Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |
“Death with dignity” — framed as compassion for the terminally ill.
Source: Health Canada — MAID |
| 2Initial Scope |
Children under 3 with specific disabilities (1939). The “Reich Committee for the Scientific Registering of Serious Hereditary and Congenital Illnesses” identified targets.
Source: USHMM — Euthanasia Program |
Terminal illness only — death must be “reasonably foreseeable.” Bill C-14, 2016.
Source: Justice Laws — Bill C-14 |
| 3First Expansion |
Expanded to adults with disabilities, chronic illness, and mental health problems (late 1939). Institutions across Germany required to register patients meeting expanded criteria.
Source: USHMM |
Removed “reasonably foreseeable death” requirement. Track 2 created for chronic conditions where death is not foreseeable. Bill C-7, 2021.
Source: Justice Laws — Bill C-7 |
| 4Institutional Normalization |
Physicians oversaw the program. They issued falsified death certificates, sent condolence letters with fabricated causes of death. Bureaucratic machinery made killing routine.
Source: USHMM |
Physicians administer the program. MAID deaths increased from 1,018 (2016) to 16,499 (2024). Now 5.1% of ALL Canadian deaths.
Source: Health Canada — 5th Annual Report on MAID, 2024 |
| 5Vulnerable Groups |
Expanded to geriatric patients, bombing victims, forced laborers, and eventually those deemed “racially unfit.” Anyone the state considered a burden.
Source: USHMM |
Veterans offered MAID instead of care (Hansard, VEAC committee testimony, 2022). 48.3% of Track 2 recipients in the lowest income/housing quintile. Denise, a MAID applicant, stated publicly: “I chose MAiD because I’m stuck in abject poverty.” Mental illness expansion infrastructure built (Bill C-7 sunset clause).
Sources: Health Canada Annual Report; House of Commons VEAC |
| 6Targeting Dissent |
Those who protested were silenced. After Catholic Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen’s sermon denouncing the program (August 1941), T4 went “underground” — but continued covertly as “wild euthanasia.”
Source: USHMM |
Veteran whistleblowers who reported being offered MAID in lieu of treatment saw no investigation of the original complaints.
Source: Parliamentary testimony, Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs (2022) |
| 7Cost Justification |
Nazi propaganda calculated the cost of maintaining disabled citizens to justify the program. Schoolchildren were given math problems calculating the burden of institutional care.
Source: USHMM |
The Parliamentary Budget Officer calculated healthcare savings before the expansion — $149 million per year. Cost per MAID death: $1,960.
Source: PBO — Cost Estimate for Bill C-7 |
| 8Scale |
Approximately 250,000 killed over 6 years (1939–1945).
Source: USHMM |
76,475 MAID deaths in 8 years (2016–2024) — and still expanding. Combined with 53,308 opioid crisis deaths (federal response called “insufficient” by the Lancet): 129,783 Canadians.
Sources: Health Canada; Public Health Agency of Canada — Opioid Harms |
Section 2 — What They Labeled as “Extreme”: The Red Ensign
The Canadian Anti-Hate Network published a school handbook that labeled the Canadian Red Ensign — the flag Canadian soldiers carried at Vimy Ridge, Dieppe, and Juno Beach — as a “hate-promoting symbol.”
- This flag is flown at war memorials across Canada and by Royal Canadian Legion branches to this day.
- Veterans who served under this flag, or who honor it at Remembrance Day ceremonies, are being reclassified as potential extremists by association.
- The same government that labels veterans as extremists for honoring their service flag is the one running a program that has killed more Canadians than the First World War.
When a government labels its own military heritage as hate while simultaneously running a death program that exceeds wartime casualties — the comparison to historical authoritarian states is not an insult. It is a warning.
Sources: Canadian Anti-Hate Network school resource materials; Royal Canadian Legion; Canadian War Museum; Veterans Affairs Canada
Section 3 — The Silencing Apparatus
Authoritarian programs cannot survive scrutiny. They require a mechanism to suppress dissent. Canada has built one.
Legislative Control of Information
- Bill C-11 (Online Streaming Act, 2023): Grants the CRTC authority to regulate what algorithms show Canadians, including user-generated content discoverability.
Source: Justice Laws — Bill C-11 - Bill C-63 / C-36 (attempted): Expanded hate speech definitions with pre-crime provisions allowing complaints before speech occurs. Died on the order paper.
Source: LEGISinfo — Bill C-63 - Bill C-18 (Online News Act, 2023): Creates media funding dependency — newsrooms receive government-negotiated payments, creating financial incentive not to bite the hand that feeds.
Source: Justice Laws — Bill C-18
State Media
- CBC: Receives $1.38 billion per year in public funding. Its English television draws a 95.6% audience share loss (3.9% of the market). It functions as the government’s messaging arm to a nearly empty room — while independent outlets are defunded or delisted.
Sources: CBC Annual Report; CRTC audience data; Parliamentary Budget Officer
Suppression of Whistleblowers
- CAHN Red Ensign campaign: Military heritage reclassified as hate imagery in school materials distributed nationally.
- Veteran whistleblowers: Multiple veterans who reported being offered MAID in lieu of mental health treatment were offered further MAID referrals rather than investigation into the original complaints.
- Foreign interference: The names of MPs identified in the NSICOP report as having knowingly assisted foreign state interference remain classified. Canadians cannot know which of their elected representatives betrayed them.
Source: NSICOP Annual Report, 2024
Section 4 — The Question
Aktion T4 killed 250,000 in 6 years. Canada’s MAID program has killed 76,475 in 8 years — and it’s still expanding. Add 53,308 opioid deaths under a response the Lancet called “insufficient.” That’s 129,783 Canadians — more than Canada’s combined losses in WW1 and WW2.
The Nazis started with the disabled. Canada started with the terminally ill. The Nazis expanded to the mentally ill. Canada is building the infrastructure to expand to the mentally ill. The Nazis calculated the cost savings. Canada’s PBO calculated the cost savings. The Nazis silenced those who objected. Canada labels those who object as extremists.
This is not calling anyone a Nazi. This is reading history and recognizing a pattern. The question is not whether the comparison is offensive. The question is whether 129,783 dead Canadians is offensive enough to warrant asking it.
Every number on this page is from the Government of Canada’s own publications or the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Verify it yourself.
The law that exists to prevent this:
Rome Statute (Art. 7) — Canada was the first country to implement it. Crimes against humanity: a widespread or systematic attack on a civilian population. 76,475 deaths. Systematic. Directed by legislation. Against the most vulnerable civilians. Life imprisonment.
Nuremberg Code (Principle 1) — written specifically because of what the Nazis did. Voluntary consent without coercion. When disabled Canadians request MAID because the state refuses support, the “consent” is manufactured by the same institutional failure the Nuremberg trials were designed to prevent.
Bill C-84 (1976) — Canada voted 130–124 to abolish execution for convicted murderers. Then in 2016, it legislated execution for the disabled, elderly, and veteran — and called it compassion. The Nazis called Aktion T4 “mercy death.” Canada calls MAID “medical assistance in dying.” The language is different. The outcome is identical.
05 — REPORTS FOR IDIOTSThe Simple Version
For anyone who still doesn't get it. Small words. Short sentences. No excuses.
HERE IS WHAT HAPPENED:
1. The government made a program that kills people. They called it MAID. They said it was for people who were dying anyway.
2. Then they changed the rules. Now you don't have to be dying. You just have to be sick. Or disabled. Or sad. Or poor.
3. 76,475 people are dead. That's more Canadians than died in World War One. In eight years.
4. The government calculated how much money they save every time someone dies instead of getting care. The answer is $20,685. MAID costs $8,150. Palliative care costs $28,835. They save twenty grand every time you die. Total palliative care avoided so far: $2.07 billion.
5. The PM holds $6.8 million in Brookfield stock options. Brookfield owns seniors housing globally. MAID reduces demand for seniors care. BlackRock owns $308 million in Brookfield. Together they manage $14.5 trillion. The PM profits from every death.
6. Kiano Vafaeian was 26. His family says Dr. Ellen Wiebe coached him into choosing death. Roger Foley had food and water withheld — they offered to kill him four times. Heather Hancock was called "selfish" for choosing to live. 428 legal violations tracked. Zero referred to police.
7. 102 doctors killed 373 people each. That's 7% of providers doing 38% of all killing. A peer-reviewed study called it "policy capture by activists colonizing medicine."
8. A veteran — someone who fought for this country — asked for help. They offered to kill her instead. That is in Hansard. The official record of Parliament.
9. A woman named Denise said: "I chose MAID because I'm stuck living in abject poverty." She didn't want to die. She couldn't afford to live. The government made it easier to die than to get housing.
7. 53,308 people died from drug overdoses. The government's own medical journal called their response "insufficient." They found $28.2 billion for foreign car battery companies. They couldn't find enough to stop 53,000 people from dying.
8. Add the numbers. 76,475 + 53,308 = 129,783 dead Canadians. In less than ten years. That is more than World War One AND World War Two combined. The combined war dead is 111,400. The government's number is 129,783.
9. They spent $800,000 to hunt 84 deer. That's $9,524 per deer. They spent $10,000 to catch one bullfrog. But they saved $1,960 per human being they killed. A deer is worth more than you. A bullfrog is worth five of you.
10. When a veteran pointed this out, they labeled him mentally ill. They changed his medical records. They took away his phone. They drugged him. They locked him in a facility for 60 days. Because he said — out loud — what the government's own numbers say on paper.
NOW HERE IS THE HISTORY:
11. In 1939, the Nazis started a program called Aktion T4. It killed disabled people. They said it was mercy. They said those lives were "not worth living." They started with disabled children. Then they expanded it to adults. Then they expanded it to anyone they didn't like. They killed 250,000 people.
12. The doctors ran the program. The government calculated the cost savings. When people protested, they said the program stopped. It didn't. It went underground. The killing continued until 1945.
13. Canada started MAID for the terminally ill. Then they expanded it to the disabled. Then they expanded it to the chronically ill. Then they built the infrastructure to expand it to the mentally ill. The doctors run the program. The government calculated the cost savings. When veterans protested, they were labeled extremists.
14. This is not calling anyone a Nazi. This is reading a history book and noticing that the steps are the same. Start with mercy. Expand the criteria. Calculate the savings. Silence the objectors. Keep killing.
AND HERE IS WHAT THEY DID WHILE DOING IT:
15. They took the flag that Canadian soldiers carried at Vimy Ridge — the Red Ensign — and they put it in a school handbook as a "hate symbol." The same flag that flew at Dieppe. At Juno Beach. At every Canadian war memorial in the country. They called it hate.
16. They called veterans who honor that flag "extremists." They called veterans who question MAID "delusional." They called veterans who report foreign interference "mentally ill." They labeled the people who fought for the country as threats to the country — while running a program that has killed more Canadians than the wars those veterans fought in.
17. They wasted $100 billion. They killed 129,783 people. They labeled the people who noticed as Nazis. And they did it all with your money.
If you still don't understand: they called the people who served this country Nazis, while doing Nazi things to the people of this country. That's not an insult. That's what happened. Read the numbers. They're all from the government's own reports.
Primary records on this file.
The Pattern — How State-Sanctioned Killing Programs Expand.