The Technocrat Arrives at Dusk
Canadians woke this week to the soft thump of Mark Carney lowering a lantern onto the MAID file and announcing, with the calm of a man reading a weather report, that “the direction is clear.” Translation: the federal government will not be expanding MAID to include mental‑illness‑only cases — not now, and not in any politically imaginable future.
This is not a revelation. It is a confirmation that Ottawa has finally read the room.
The Technocrat Arrives at Dusk
Canadians woke this week to the soft thump of Mark Carney lowering a lantern onto the MAID file and announcing, with the calm of a man reading a weather report, that “the direction is clear.” Translation: the federal government will not be expanding MAID to include mental‑illness‑only cases — not now, and not in any politically imaginable future.
This is not a revelation. It is a confirmation that Ottawa has finally read the room.
