With appropriate safeguards, British Columbians appear to be accepting of medical assistance in dying. More than 2,000 B.C. residents chose to die with a doctor in 2021.
There is strong support for medical assistance in dying in British Columbia, which has the highest per capita use of the program than the national average, recent polling and data shows.
Across Canada, 82 per cent support MAID, to some degree, including appropriate checks and balances for mentally ill people, according to an Ipsos poll conducted on behalf of Dying With Dignity Canada in January 2023. In B.C., the support rises to 86 per cent, polling shows. However, an Angus Reid Institute poll, not conducted on behalf of a special interest group, showed less support for MAID in its current form and even less support should it include mental illness as the sole condition .
In 2016, when MAID was introduced, there were only 1,018 deaths. The six-year total stands at 31,664. MAID deaths accounted for 3.3 per cent of all deaths in Canada in 2021, an increase from 2.5 per cent in 2020 and two per cent in 2019, according to Statistics Canada. B.C. is the province with the highest rate of MAID deaths, at 4.8 per cent, in 2021.
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