Overview
- Kiano Vafaeian, 26, died through Canada’s MAID program in British Columbia on December 30, 2025, after earlier approvals were withdrawn and other Ontario doctors declined.
- His parents say they learned of the approval only after his death and accuse British Columbia provider Dr. Ellen Wiebe of coaching him to qualify under the non–reasonably foreseeable death pathway known as Track 2.
- The death certificate lists blindness, severe peripheral neuropathy and diabetes as antecedent causes, which the family disputes by pointing to medical records they say do not show severe neuropathy.
- The family urges lawmakers to scale back Track 2 and backs Bill C-218, arguing current rules allow approval and euthanasia within roughly 90 days for applicants outside end-of-life scenarios.
- Dr. Wiebe says every Track 2 case she approves involves unbearable suffering from a non-psychiatric grievous condition with informed consent, and federal policy now delays MAID when mental illness is the sole condition.