Canada’s ‘suicidal empathy’ hits its terminal stage: Full Comment podcast

Civilizations die from suicide, not murder, as a famous historian once said. And Canada is in the process of administering MAID to itself, says author and professor Gad Saad. He discusses his new bestselling book, "Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind," with Brian Lilley. And he explains the fatal flaw of excessive empathy — and how Canada is rapidly succumbing to it. Radical values imposed by our institutions, embodied in the extreme by the last prime minister, frame our history as shameful. They have led us to embrace immigrants who reject us. And they have made us tolerate the intolerant. It's why Saad says he's moving out of Canada, although he explains how our government isn't making it easy for him to leave. (Originally recorded for a Toronto Sun video, June 26, 2026.)

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