BC MAiD Cases Continue Toward a Plateau
A look at the most recent 2025 MAiD statistics in BC
On September 30, 2025, we posted previously unpublished MAiD statistics for 2024.1 Those numbers showed what appeared to be a continued slowing in the year-over-year increase of MAiD cases. In that article, we projected that growth would continue to trend toward a steady plateau—a prediction that appears to be bearing out as 2025 numbers begin to emerge.
Today, we are sharing MAiD data from British Columbia for the first three quarters of 2025. These figures further strengthen the case that MAiD may be approaching a steady state.
BC MAiD Cases Continue to Slow
Before we show you the 2025 numbers for British Columbia, it’s important to explain how we approach these figures.
The raw number—or the increase or decrease from one year to the next—does not, in itself, tell us anything inherently meaningful. There is no “right” or “wrong” number of MAiD cases in any given year. Each MAiD case represents one person making an intensely personal decision about their own suffering. Whatever the total, it is simply the sum of those individual decisions. In that sense, the number itself cannot be judged as good or bad.
So why report on it at all?
Because for nearly a decade now, opponents of MAiD have warned of a slippery slope—an “out of control” system, sometimes described in extreme terms as a “death cult,” that will continue to push the numbers ever higher.
That, however, is not what the data shows.
We reached out to the BC Ministry of Health to obtain the most up-to-date MAiD figures for 2025, as none have yet been formally published.2 While we were not able to obtain the full year, we did receive data for the first three quarters—and they are broadly consistent with the trend we’ve been observing.
For context, growth in MAiD numbers in BC (and across Canada) has been steadily slowing since 2021. In BC, year-over-year increases were hovering around 30% up to 2021. In 2022, the increase dropped to 23.9%. In 2023, it fell further to 10.0%. In 2024, it declined again to 8.4%.
Now, when we compare the first three quarters of 2025 to the same periods in 2022–2024, here’s what we see:
If 2025 MAiD cases in BC end up anywhere close to a 4.1% increase over 2024, that would represent yet another halving of the growth rate—further evidence that a plateau may be approaching, just as we anticipated in our analysis of the 2024 numbers.
A brief word of caution is warranted here. These figures represent only three quarters of the data for 2025, and only from one province. We will need the full 2025 data, both in BC and nationally, before drawing firm conclusions. That said, MAiD growth trends have been broadly consistent across provinces in recent years. If that consistency holds, these early figures suggest that the overall trajectory is continuing to stabilize rather than accelerate.
And if stabilization is what the data ultimately confirms, then the opposition’s “runaway train” narrative becomes increasingly difficult to defend. What we may be witnessing instead is something far less dramatic: a healthcare service reaching a point of equilibrium, where access reflects eligibility and individual choice—no more, and no less.
We’ll continue watching as provincial and national figures are released in the months ahead. Based on what we’re seeing, we don’t anticipate anything particularly eye-catching—but we’ll report on it carefully as the data become available. Stay tuned.
I am a long time supporter of choice for Canadians. I prepare a quarterly report covering provinces who will confirm their MAiD deaths each quarter: ON, MB, AB, BC. BTW I was the first to actually calculate MAiD deaths as % of total deaths, all causes. Health Canada later adopted that but they don't get it right. Almost 10 years on and they still don't get it. I'll send you my MAiD in Canada annual report for 2025 and my critique of the Health Canada Report for 2024
You state that MAiD provisions are plateauing. Is that a good thing? What does it mean? Is it OK for MAiD to plateau at <2% in MB? Is 4% OK for ON? Here on Vancouver Island (900k population vs NS 1mil) MAiD in Q1-Q3 2025 is 11%. BC is 8%. Neither are plateauing. Growth is slowing.
Why are so many people who I suspect would qualify for MAiD being effectively denied in many if not most provinces in Canada? No one is asking.
It's maybe a combination of factors: Public lacking knowledge (Like you need not have terminal illness), institutions denying patient rights, too much red tape. In one province you are subjected to assessments by seven (7) people. One at triage and then if you pass that, you could get two assessments involving three clinicians each. I'll leave it there.
Thank you for sharing your incredible work. Such positive news!
(I'm unsurprised, but grateful for the available data.)
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