Global News published this video item, entitled “What Nova Scotia’s struggle to keep up with assisted dying requests could mean for Canada” – below is their description.
Since Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAID) program was introduced in 2016, Health Canada says almost 22,000 Canadians have chosen to end their lives on their own terms.
Federal legislation passed in March has also made the option more accessible to some Canadians. But as demand ramps up further, cracks are also starting to show.
Ross Lord looks at how Nova Scotia is struggling to provide assisted dying services as it reaches record-high referrals, and how other provinces might start running into the same difficulties.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.