Kelsi Sheren argues that the Canadian MAID program functions as a form of state-sponsored murder used to reduce the burden of vulnerable people on society rather than as a compassionate care practice.

“ma is medical assistance and dying but let's call it what it is it's Eugenics it's not made it's Eugenics and the reason I say that so emphatically is because the statistic around who is using medical assistance and dying versus who is being euthanized are radically different”