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So to really understand this story, I would need to know

(a) how is 45k people over ten years 1 in 25 of Canadians, a nation of 35 million people (1 in 25 is 4%, 4% of 35 million is 1.4 million) and

(b) if we assume there is no such program in America, do U.S. doctors ever assist their patients to die?

There is also the question of how many of the Canadian “victims” would have lived any length of time longer, let’s say three months, and with what quality of life?

If we are talking about assisting this any people to avoid a month or two of pain and suffering, then is it as draconian as it sounds? I am not sure how any of these cases were in any way recoverable. At the same time I don’t support the idea of a government-sponsored early dying program but in reality, have hospitals and doctors not been engaged in this for decades?

Anyway, the math of this article needs some work or better explanation. 45k even if we assume a static population for eight years is 1 in 800, not 1 in 25. And it would be 1 in 6400 each of the years.