We Canadians know the rest of the world looks down on death panels, and so we pretend that we don't have them up here, but the facts is we've used death panels for decades and they work great. At first we were worried about leaving so much power in the hands of the government, so for a few years we had them all organized in a grass roots manner. Everyone in a given city would write someone's name on a shard of broken pottery, and whoever got the most votes, well... But this was really time-consuming, so eventually we just let our MPs form a committee which took care of the whole thing for us. Again, you'd think that would be a source for worry, right? But you know politicians... within a few months euthanasia was a tool for getting bills passed. Some pesky independent holding up your new budget? Hmm... better review the stats on his health care costs, oh what's this? He's a smoker? Yeah, we as a society can't insure that risk. Assemble the death panel!

So the whole thing works great, we're passing more legislation than ever--our government is like a finely oiled machine--and every couple months we get to off some politicians. Win-win.