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Ten years ago tomorrow — June 17, 2016 — the Canadian euthanasia law received royal assent, and the country wrote assisted death into the law of the land. But the death-clock started earlier in Canada. Months before Ottawa, back in December 2015, Quebec had already opened the door — the first place in Canada to write euthanasia into law and to call it "care.” Quebec beat Canada to it. Quebec led; the country followed. And a decade on, Quebec does not merely lead Canada. It leads the world.

Perhaps you saw the New York Times this week. The world's most influential newspaper held Quebec up as the global capital of medically assisted death: 8 percent of all deaths in the province, and in one region, Lanaudière, more than 13 of every 100 people now dying this way. The reporter toured the rooms built for it — paneled like boutique hotels, paid for by local donors who raised the millions without difficulty.

How did the cradle of Catholicism in Canada become the world leader in putting its sick and its old to death?

We are currently nearing the end of our summer fundraising campaign. Our goal is $20,000 and, as I write, we have reached 77 percent of it, $15,400. That leaves $4,600, and just two days, today and tomorrow, to raise it. Please give today >>

We at Quebec Life Coalition know the answer, because we have lived it. A province that once filled its churches, that ran its hospitals and its schools with priests and nuns, walked out of the Church in a single generation and never came back. Quebec traded faith for apostasy, and a society that loses God does not stay where it was. It keeps falling. First abortion, some 20,000 a year. Now this.

The Times quoted an old man, raised Catholic, explaining why he accepted it all: "the good God is good, he wouldn't want me to suffer."

It is a sentence worth sitting with. Because the good God he was raised on, Jesus Christ, God made flesh, did not avoid suffering. He took the worst of it, the whole weight of it, and judged it fitting for Himself. If God Himself walked through pain and did not find it absurd, then pain is not absurd. It is the most serious thing in the world, but it is not meaningless. It can be offered, joined to His, turned into love.

Lose contact with that God, and you lose the meaning of pain along with Him. And once pain means nothing, any pain is too much, and any life with pain in it begins to look not worth living. That is the quiet logic beneath Quebec's record-breaking numbers. A whole society is living off the last of its Christian capital, enough, for now, to keep standing. Not forever.

This is why Quebec Life Coalition exists, and why I am writing to you today. We have to keep fighting for Quebec, but we need the means to do it.

Our current summer campaign goal is $20,000. As I write, we have reached 77 percent of it, $15,400. That leaves $4,600, and just two days, today and tomorrow, to raise it.

There are good people who fight euthanasia and abortion on the narrow ground: the law, the statistics, the abuses. We document those too. Our website is full of them, the stories of disabled Canadians pressured toward death, of veterans offered it instead of help, of patients asked the question on their way into surgery. But we are not a "bare bones" pro-life group. We are faith, family, and life, from conception to natural death, because we know what the narrow fight sometimes forgets: that without a living faith, there is no defending life for long. Apostasy leads to a culture of death. We did not read that in a book. We watched it happen, in Quebec, in spades.

To give to QLC is to put your hand to the one repair that actually reverses the slide: not just blocking the next bad law, but helping turn Quebec back. Back toward the faith, and so back toward life.

Help us turn it back >>

Many of you reading this have already given, some of you generously, and I thank you with my whole heart. You owe us nothing more. But we are close, $4,600 close, and if any of you feel moved to give again in these final hours, you would carry us over the line.

$4,600 in two days. No one else will give your gift for you.

Please give, sacrificially, today >>

For Life,

Georges Buscemi

President, Quebec Life Coalition

P.S. Tomorrow marks ten years of euthanasia in Canada, but Quebec got there first. Ten years of calling death "care." We cannot undo a decade in two days. But we can refuse to let it pass in silence, and we can keep building the one answer to it: a movement rooted in faith, family, and life. $4,600 left, until tomorrow night. Please give today >>