Assisted suicide in Canada has been described as "an idea whose time has come". It's a reality now after Friday's unanimous Supreme Court decision.
What intrigues me is: why Canada? Something is going on there. Canada must be the only country in the world without an abortion law. Canada was the first sort-of Anglophone country to legalise same-sex marriage. And now Canada is the first sort-of Anglophone country to legalise assisted suicide.
Why is Canada so ethically progressive even though it struggles to keep from being stereotyped as "the world's most boring country"? (Check Google.) Does it have something to do with the tension between Francophone Quebec and the rest of the country?
I suspect that Americans are really ignorant of the cultural currents in their northern neighbour. But to see where the US, the UK, Australia and New Zealand are heading, they need to study how the second largest country in the world already got there.
Any ideas?
Michael Cook
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