I have done something I generally avoid doing

I wrote to my member of parliament, in regards to bill C-7.  It expands the bill legalizing assisted suicide that was passed in 2016.  Below is the text of my letter in blue.

(Member of Parliament)

When assisted suicide was legalized in 2016, it was indicated at that time that there would be no no new legislation regarding assisted suicide until a thorough five year review of the impact of assisted suicide on Canadian society had been made.  Where is this review?  

When assisted suicide was first introduced, many Canadians voiced a concern that access to assisted suicide would be expanded, and the criteria would be relaxed.  These concerns were dismissed as slippery slope arguments, the safeguards were to be in place pending the aforementioned review, and yet, here we are.  

Is there any dedication on your government's part of providing more support for palliative care? Support for the disabled? If there is to be a choice to be made, should it not be a real choice in which managed and assisted living is a real option?  Currently, very few Canadians have that real option, and your government appears to only be offering death to those who do not.

Medical costs are one of the greatest expenditures in the government.  The cost of medical expenses have skyrocketed since the healthcare system was first created back in Mike Pearson's time.  We now have far more treatment options, more and more effective medicines, tests, treatments, probes, etc etc.  We are healthier and we live longer, and it costs a fortune.  Just letting people die, however, is cheap, and I do not trust any government, pencil pusher or bureaucrat who has that kind of power.

Furthermore, they are expanding the rights to include the 'disabled', and they are discussing who can make the decision for them if they cannot.  I have some skin in that game.  My son is disabled.