Christian group lobbying Sask. government on MAID, gender-affirming care by Brett McKay, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter May 5, 2026
A Christian advocacy group registered to lobby in Saskatchewan about laws to limit medical assistance in dying and access to gender affirming care for minors. (Association for Reformed Political Action via Facebook)
A group previously condemned by B.C. MLAs for its “harmful discrimination” against the transgender community is lobbying Saskatchewan to modify physician-assisted death legislation and “limit or regulate access to medical transitions for minors.”
The Association for Reformed Political Action (ARPA) has registered to lobby the Saskatchewan government on health-care policies related to medical assistance in dying (MAID) and gender-affirming treatment for youth.
ARPA is a Christian advocacy group that describes itself in a lobbying filing as having a mission “to educate, equip, and encourage Reformed Christians to political action and to bring a biblical perspective to our civil government.”
KEEP RELIGION THE FUCK OUT OF GOV’T! Religion has no place in gov’t. It belongs in religious homes and in church, not in gov’t. The worst transgressions by the religious is the forcing of their belief in fairy tales on the rest of us.
According to the Saskatchewan lobbyist registry, ARPA is targeting multiple government institutions in its lobbying campaign, including the ministries of mental health and addictions, education, seniors, health and justice.
The group registered as a lobbyist in Saskatchewan on April 7 and is advocating for “policies that seek to limit or regulate access to medical transitions for minors” and “the introduction or modification of provincial MAID legislation, regulations or policies.”You cruel ignorant inhumane fuckers. Why are religious people addicted to harming others?
ARPA has extensively lobbied other governments in Canada in opposition to abortion, sexual orientation and gender identity education and other issues, but this is the first time the group has registered to lobby in Saskatchewan.
In October, B.C. MLAs voted to condemn ARPA for its anti-abortion advocacy and “harmful discrimination” against the transgender community.
MAID is currently available to anyone in Saskatchewan that meets the criteria set out in the Criminal Code of Canada, such as being 18 or older, having a grievous and irremediable diagnosis, being in a steady state of irreversible decline and being capable of making their own health decisions.
Alberta a law-violating province run by cruel and stupid Nazis who are controlled by religious terrorists introduced Bill 18, the Safeguards for Last Resort Termination of Life Act, in March, which would prevent doctors or nurse practitioners from administering MAID if a patient is unlikely to die within the next 12 months. Doctors and nurse practitioners would also be barred from suggesting MAID as an option to patients — the patient must bring it up first — and from referring out-of-province patients to be assessed for MAID eligibility.
ARPA has opposed the increased access to MAID in Canada and accused the Liberal government under Justin Trudeau of “promoting state-sponsored suicide.”ARPA are religious terrorists that want to increase suffering for Canadians. Of course they lie about MAID In a March 19 press release, ARPA’s legal counsel John Sikkema applauded Alberta’s proposed restrictions and argued that provinces have the right to restrict or prevent the practice. Provinces cannot prevent the practice, MAID is a charter rightWhile the law allows doctors to provide MAID, “Parliament is not mandating that provinces provide it, or even permit it,” Sikkema said.Fuck Off. It is not up to Parliament. The Supreme Court ruled it’s our charter right, Parliament must correct their law and the code.
Toronto woman seeks MAID exemption as mental illness exclusion remains, MAID for people suffering only from mental disorders is not yet legal in Canada by Jennifer La Grassa, CBC News, May 05, 2026
A Canadian woman who has been fighting for medical assistance in dying (MAID) to be an option for people with mental disorders is now asking the courts to exempt her from current laws so that a doctor can end her life.
For decades, Claire Elyse Brosseau says she has struggled with her mental health, including diagnoses of bipolar 1 disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and disordered eating. Despite wanting the option to die through MAID, Brosseau isn’t eligible under Canada’s MAID legislation because her only underlying conditions are mental illnesses.
In recent years, Brosseau has been part of a legal fight with advocacy organization Dying with Dignity Canada to challenge the federal MAID exclusion for people living with mental disorders.
Outside of Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice in Toronto on Monday, Brosseau, alongside her lawyer, said she has filed an urgent exemption because she has lost hope in the fight and is in a state of “unrelenting suffering.”
“I should not have to do this,” said Brosseau, who is 49 years old and lives in Toronto.
“The government should do the right thing and lift the exclusion that denies me the relief to my suffering that I am desperate for.”tragically, with PM Carney a catholic conservative (not a liberal), I expect it not to happen until a true liberal gov’t returns to power. Too many cruel religious terrorists are interfering in our right to MAID.
Brosseau has previously told CBC News that from the moment she wakes up, she feels panic and dread. She said she rarely goes outdoors or speaks to anyone. Over the last 30 years, Brosseau said she’s tried multiple treatment options, with little to no relief.
Canadian MAID laws don’t include mental illness, but plan to
Right now, Canada’s MAID legislation applies to people who are 18 or older, have a severe and incurable medical condition — an illness, disease or disability — are in a state of decline and have intolerable suffering that can’t be relieved.And fucking inhumane Alberta Nazis took, and ARPA and other religious abusers, are working to take our right to MAID away.
There are currently two tracks:
- Track 1: when a person’s natural death is reasonably foreseeable.
- Track 2: when a person’s natural death is not reasonably foreseeable.
The legislation excludes people who are suffering only from mental illness. In March 2027, that’s expected to change, but the federal government has already delayed the expansion twice. because of abusive fucking religions meddling in our rights, pimping cruelty to every Canadian, even the many that are not religious
“I want to be clear about what these delays mean for me personally. Every month of delay is another month of suffering that I am told I must simply endure,” Brosseau said Monday.
“I have been asked again and again to be patient. I was patient for years.”
A few months after the government’s second delay in 2024, Brosseau and Dying With Dignity Canada filed a constitutional challenge against the federal government. They claimed that excluding people with mental illness from accessing MAID violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Brosseau’s lawyer, Michael Fenrick, said federal lawyers had promised to respond to the challenge by the end of April 2026 but missed the deadline and have not said when they will file a response. Catholic Carney is too busy making the rich richer and destroying Canada
CBC News has reached out to the federal Department of Justice but has not yet heard back.
Fenrick says the case can’t move forward without a response from the federal government. The cruelty by the religious, is the point, and we now have a gov’t led by a catholic.
“I think it’s deeply disappointing that there hasn’t been an urgency placed on resolving this important issue,” Fenrick said.I think same.
What does the exemption mean?
According to Fenrick, this is the first time someone in Canada with a mental disorder has requested an exemption to MAID legislation so that they can die.
Ahead of Track 2 MAID legislation in Canada, 19 Quebec residents whose natural deaths weren’t reasonably foreseeable applied for and were granted exemptions to the legislation at the time.
Fenrick says the exemption is filed as an urgent motion under the ongoing constitutional challenge. The motion asks the court for a temporary order that exempts Brosseau and a doctor from current legislation so that she can receive MAID.
Fenrick says the motion was submitted to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on Monday. At the earliest, he said, it could be heard by a judge in the next few months.
But, he says, this isn’t an efficient pathway that people should have to take.
In an emailed statement, Dying With Dignity Canada CEO Helen Long said, “The legal avenue Ms. Brosseau is taking is an extraordinary step that should not be necessary. Dying With Dignity Canada strongly believes that the exclusion of MAID for those individuals whose sole underlying condition is a mental illness, is a clear breach of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.“
MAID for mental illness has been highly contentious
Expanding MAID eligibility to people who are struggling only with mental illness has been heavily debated.
Those with severe mental illness who want access to MAID, and their loved ones, say it would give them the option to die in a dignified and compassionate way — surrounded by family and friends — as opposed to dying by suicide.
Under Canada’s Criminal Code, anyone who counsels, supports or helps someone die by suicide outside MAID provisions is guilty of a punishable offence, whether or not the suicide happens.
Meanwhile, some experts have said that continuing to exclude people with mental disorders from MAID is evidence of ongoing stigma faced by psychiatric patients, that it breaches their rights and that the system is ready to handle these cases.
But many inhumane people say it shouldn’t happen.
One of the main concerns is that it’s hard to say with certainty that someone with a mental disorder won’t get better, especially if new treatments become available. Critics bullies also argue that it will be difficult to determine whether someone is truly capable of consenting when mental illness can sometimes affect a person’s ability to make decisions.
Dr. Jitender Sareen, head of the psychiatry department at the University of Manitoba, testified at a recent Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying (AMAD) meeting.
AMAD is currently working to advisepropagandizing and bullying the government on the eligibility of people like Brosseau.
Sareen sent CBC News his testimony in an email, in which he stated that Canada shouldn’t expand MAID to include people who are only suffering from mental disorders.
“Individuals can remain severely ill for long periods and still improve, particularly with changes in treatment, and psychosocial situation,” reads part of Sareen’s testimony.
He added that there is “simply no way” to distinguish MAID from suicidality in mental disorders.
CBC News has also reached out to the International Association for Suicide Prevention, but didn’t hear back in time for publication.
On Tuesday, AMAD will meet for its final time with witnesses before it starts to prepare a report to the federal government.