The father, who has lived with and taken care of her all her life, applied for an injunction against her application. He said her condition made her prone to obsession, and so she had become obsessed with MAiD.

There is no evidence that she is suffering from a serious and irreversible illness, a current qualification criterion for the programme, and her own doctors refused to sign off on MAiD, not once but twice.

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However, her MAiD “navigator”, who functions like a personal guidance counsellor, managed to find another doctor previously involved in her treatment to approve the woman’s request. The “tie” in opposing expert opinions, coupled with the woman’s decision, apparently led the court to rule in her favour.

The court said she had the right to choose her own life and death. It also said: “Parliament has put its trust in doctors and nurse practitioners and it is not for the court to second-guess that choice.”

But what if the medical experts couldn’t agree among themselves, as in this case?

In 2022, there were 13,241 MAiD-assisted deaths, accounting for an extraordinary 4.1 per cent of all deaths reported in Canada. The number is expected to rise, especially when it will eventually cover psychiatric patients. This has become so controversial that it has been delayed several times since passing into law in 2021. Most experts and politicians now expect it won’t become effective until after the next general election, when it may become an issue at the ballot box.

But with the latest case, it appears, mental patients may apply for MAiD through the courts after all, even if they can’t do it solely through medical channels.

When it comes to a patient’s “autonomy” vs parental concerns, this case is hardly isolated.

In 2021, a father in British Columbia was briefly jailed for contempt of court for publicly discussing his legal battle to prevent his own child, then a teenager, from undergoing “gender transition therapy”.

This month, meanwhile, an Ontario court came up with a landmark judgment. The province’s public medical system, called OHIP, covers sex-change operations, from male to female and from female to male. But the case in question concerned a person who declared “themself” non-binary, meaning “they” want to be identified as neither male nor female, and have the sexual organs of both sexes to match that new status.

This means performing a vaginoplasty, that is, constructing a vagina, while leaving the person’s penis intact.

OHIP initially denied the funding request, but the court ruled in the person’s favour.

In Canada, transgender women are increasingly legally accepted as women. Last month, Canada’s Supreme Court ruled in a sexual assault case that it was “problematic” for a lower court judge to refer to the alleged victim as a “woman”. It declared the more appropriate term should have been “person with a vagina”.

The initial trial judge’s use of the word “a woman” may “have been unfortunate and engendered confusion”, according to the top court.

Of course, the new legal gender status is now interchangeable for biological men and women. This already has enormous implications for prisoners.

Biologically born male criminals convicted of violent and/or sex crimes, could declare a gender change – without the need to undergo any medical procedure – and apply to be reassigned to female prisons. They fall under the category of “gender diverse offender”.

In 16 recently known applications, but probably there have been many more, 10 were approved for transfer to a women’s prison facility.

The absurdity of the legal situation became contentious recently with the case of the notorious Canadian sadistic sex killer Luka Magnotta.

Magnotta – who now goes by the name Violette – has declared himself a transgender and married a fellow inmate in a maximum-security prison. They were recently transferred to a medium security facility because Magnotta claimed “they” could only obtain proper specialised support for “gender diverse offenders” there.

Magnotta is serving a life sentence for the murder and dismemberment of mainland Chinese university student Jun Lin in Montreal in 2012. Magnotta filmed the macabre acts, then posted the 11-minute footage online.

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He subsequently mailed some of the body parts to several junior schools and the offices of political parties.

Magnotta was the subject of Don’t F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer, one of Netflix’s most watched documentaries of 2019. It investigated a younger Magnotta who filmed himself torturing kittens to death while filming them.

It used to be both amusing and frustrating for Canadians to argue about the legal and proper use of politically correct gender pronouns. But when those contested gender terms are being turned into actual legal and “real” categories to designate how people should live and die and interact with each other, “woke” has become a highly dangerous ideology. And that’s happening not only in Canada but in many other Western societies as well.