There were 3102 assisted-suicide deaths in Ontario, Canada last year, up from 2378 in 2020, representing more than a 30% increase.

The data from the Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario indicates that the December 2021 figures showed a significant increase with 298 reported euthanasia deaths as compared to 188 reported euthanasia deaths in December 2020.

A further analysis indicates that the growth in killing by lethal injection is getting worse, according to Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. He says in the first half of 2021 there were 1363 assisted suicides, up from 1127 in the first half of 2020 or a 21% increase, but in the second half of 2021 there were 1739 assisted suicides up from 1251 in the second half of 2020 which is a 39% increase.

The 2020 Canadian euthanasia report indicated that the number of reported assisted suicides across all of Canada increased by 34% in 2020 to 7595 up from 5,660 in 2019 which was up more than 26% from 4,478 in 2018. Euthanasia deaths represented 2.5% of all Canadian deaths in 2020.

Since the federal government has not released data, based on the Ontario data, Schadenberg predicts “that there were almost 10,000 Canadian euthanasia deaths in 2021 and there have been approximately 31,000 Canadian euthanasia deaths from legalisation to December 31, 2021”.

He adds: “Some would suggest that this indicates that the killing program is successful, but rather I suggest that Canada is normalising killing and our healthcare system is abandoning people to death”.