Help us accelerate advocacy, education, and support services, focusing on the legalization of advance requests for MAID.

Two parliamentary committees have looked at advance requests for medical assistance in dying (MAID). Both times, they recommended allowing them. Both times, nothing changed.

82% of people in Canada support letting someone with a diagnosis like Alzheimer’s make that choice while they still can. Parliament has heard that too. Meanwhile Alberta has passed a law that pulls MAID access back, and other provinces are watching to see whether it holds. What has been missing is pressure — sustained and specific enough that it cannot be set aside a third time. Your gift today pays for that pressure.

Dying With Dignity Canada is the only national organization working on this full time: in MPs’ offices, in the research, and on the phone with families who have nowhere else to turn.

Here is what your matched gift does:

• Reaches people before they need it. New resources and a national campaign, so people know their end-of-life rights and options.
• Answers the phone. One-on-one support for people navigating MAID and advance care planning. Every time MAID is in the news, the calls spike. Your gift is what lets us pick up.
• Keeps advance requests on the agenda. Meetings with MPs, Cabinet Ministers and senior staff, plus dedicated time in Ottawa.
• Corrects the record. Misinformation about MAID is rising. Your gift puts accurate information, real research, and the voices of clinicians, ethicists and people with lived experience in front of those who need to hear them.
• Lets us move fast. When something shifts — a provincial bill, a court ruling, a federal opening — we can respond in days instead of months.

Parliament has heard this twice. Your gift today will be doubled and helps make sure the message cannot be ignored a third time.