MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying) is going to be big business in Canada.
Let's say someone picks MAID at 58 instead of dying naturally at 83.
According to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, Ottawa already saves $149 million a year in healthcare costs because people choose MAID instead of lingering in ICU or palliative care. That number will double and triple in the coming years
Also, when you die 10–20 years early, you stop collecting OAS and CPP. Just one 60-year-old picking MAID today equals $300k–$500k lifetime pension savings in the coffers of Ottawa.
Don't forget the capital gains jackpot for the CRA.
Die early and the deemed disposition of all your assets triggers big taxes on your cottage, stocks, and rental properties, TODAY instead of 20 years from now. The government collects decades ahead of schedule.
It's also going to be a huge cottage industry. Here's some possible examples:
MAiD House in Toronto: $3,500–$5,000 to rent a cozy Airbnb-style death suite.
Funeral homes now sell “MAID celebration packages” with champagne and pajama parties.
Death doulas charging $150/hr to “guide” you through the paperwork.
Lawyers writing $2,000 advance-request wills so you can schedule your own execution in 2030 when the Alzheimer’s kicks in.
Travel agents booking MAID vacation to Canada.
Finally, organs are the new gold rush.
MAID accounted for 7% of all deceased donors in Canada. That’s lungs, livers, kidneys, and hearts that would have rotted in a cancer patient. You can't sell your organs (yet) but the private transplant centers bill $250k–$1M per case (surgery + drugs). Pharma makes bank on selling lifelong anti-rejection meds. All legal, all insured, zero organ sales required.
Bottom line: every time someone picks MAID at 58 instead of dying naturally at 83, taxpayers save half a million, transplant industry pockets seven figures,
funeral directors upsell the champagne package, and the CRA cashes the capital-gains cheque early.
MAID isn’t just healthcare policy anymore.
It’s Canada’s fastest-growing profit center disguised as compassion.
Ottawa is culling humans.