{"id":42249,"date":"2025-08-04T06:50:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T06:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/42249\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T06:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T06:50:18","slug":"id-probably-be-dead-right-now-mp-sounds-alarm-on-canadas-suicide-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/42249\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019d probably be dead right now\u201d\u2014 MP sounds alarm on Canada\u2019s suicide agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On today\u2019s episode of The Candice Malcolm Show, Candice is joined by Conservative MP Andrew Lawton, who shares his powerful personal story and explains why he\u2019s fighting to stop the expansion of Canada\u2019s assisted suicide laws.<\/p>\n

Andrew has launched the \u201cI Got Better\u201d campaign to oppose the 2027 expansion of medical assistance in dying to people suffering solely from mental illness. In a deeply personal video<\/a>, Andrew reveals that he nearly took his own life during a dark period of depression, and says if today\u2019s laws had been in place then, he wouldn\u2019t be here.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The campaign supports Bill C-218, introduced by MP Tamara Jansen, which would ban MAiD for mental illness alone. Andrew explains why this law is urgently needed, how the current system puts vulnerable Canadians at risk, and why the government should be helping people recover, not offering them death.<\/p>\n

Candice and Andrew break down the alarming growth of MAiD in Canada\u2014over 13,000 deaths in 2022 alone, with more on the way\u2014and expose the Trudeau-Carney government\u2019s steady march toward a culture of hopelessness.<\/p>\n

Also, Andrew reacts to the City of Montreal fining a church for hosting American Christian singer Sean Feucht. Andrew highlights a troubling pattern where certain faith-based events are targeted while other ideological groups are left alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On today\u2019s episode of The Candice Malcolm Show, Candice is joined by Conservative MP Andrew Lawton, who shares…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,137,514,515],"class_list":["post-42249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}