> Now you’re arguing in poor faith. I never said that that’s “just Canada”. Yes I apologise but you started accusing me of taking some personal-religios pseudo

> Now you’re arguing in poor faith. I never said that that’s “just Canada”. Yes I apologise but you started accusing me of taking some personal-religios pseudo-moral ground which I find an offensive default assumption. I know you didn't mean to offend, but remember which forum this is, there's probably less book-thumpers here than normal irl. Now, I'm not introducing moral quandires into this. Please stop enagaging on this level, it's not valid, not just and I won't rise to it. I'm saying that 30% rise is significant in a year where there are other concerns. Now if this is driven by an artificial depression in the previous year then it's not being reported on, fine. I'm 200% willing to believe that this is being reported badly by the media. A 30% increase suddenly stop. (If so that's a bit odd, but OK). but given statistics I claim the 30% will drop but not to zero. If it drops to 25% increase in a 2nd year, there is a _serious_ problem. (not necessarily with MAID) which isn't bein reported on. Again the only moral concern here is this is not "vanilla or chocolate" these are serious decisions and a glib "comprable to europe" is being concerningly dismissive at a policy level, even if it's meant well to help understand the figures. Yet again, I'm not accusing MAID as a policy directly of problem/fault but this is a 30% increase in deaths due to mental illness. If this wasn't MAID people would rightly asking more questions in an a-political manner and getting concerned. Please stop act asif I'm attacking MAID as I have said I AM NOT DOING SO.