The "cold shadow" of euthanasia is spreading, Cardinal Thomas Collins has said.
Speaking at the 39th annual Cardinal's Dinner in Toronto on November 8, the cardinal urged 1,600 attendees to fight attempts to expand Canada's euthanasia law to include minors.
"The time for review of the federal euthanasia law is upon us, and there is great pressure to eliminate the so-called 'safeguards' which made it seem to be not so terrible," he told the audience at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
"One such safeguard is that euthanasia is to be only for adults. Now we hear arguments made that the concept of 'adult' is to be made so elastic that even minors are to be eligible for euthanasia, even without the consent of their parents. The cold shadow of euthanasia is spreading further in our land, and we must resist that," the cardinal said.
