For any non-Canadians who think that Mark Atwood is nutty here; no. As a Canadian, his analysis is very plausible, and he's identified what a lot of us were terrified of when a very authoritarian federal government put this policy into place: the cost-reduction feedback loop.

Canada is, sadly, a pro-Death culture. It's not quite at Moloch levels. We're not yet a modern Cathage, or the Aztecs. Perhaps we're at Incan levels. It's not merely MAID; I believe we're the only country in the world to have no law prohibiting abortion whatsoever.

You might think that a government that prohibits almost all private medicine would, if it did start tossing positive* rights into its laws, enshrine the right to a doctor. Or timely medical treatment. You would be wrong. Instead, pro-Death rights become enshrined.

*positive rights are entitlements, compelling others to provide certain goods or services for the recipient, at the cost of enforced labour of others; negative rights are the more traditional form of rights, such as the right to freedom of thought.