> patients asked to be killed in part for social reasons such as isolation and fears of homelessness,

Why is anyone surprised? Did the people who planned out this program never visit a psych ward? They're chock full of homeless people in varying degrees of "I'd rather die than go back to the streets/shelter". Sad but it's how it is.

This thing turned into exactly the horror its critics were worried it would. Their concerns were so confidently dismissed from all sides, it was so easy to paint them as naive idealists or hardhearted religious weirdos or anything. They were right and now canada is at the forefront of a modern eugenics movement.