08/05/2026
Canada, we need to talk about organ donation. 🇨🇦
Until July 24th, I knew organ donation was important.
Now I know just how important it is.
On July 24th, Bruce received a liver transplant.
Someone died, and because they chose to donate, Bruce got to live.
I will never be able to thank that person.
But here’s what I can’t stop thinking about…
Why is Canada still using an opt-IN system?
In Canada, about 90% of people say they support organ donation — but only around 32% have actually registered their decision.
That’s a massive gap.
Meanwhile, countries including the UK, Spain, France, the Netherlands and others use forms of presumed consent/opt-out donation.
And no — opt-out doesn’t mean you’re forced to donate.
You still have the right to say NO.
It simply means that the starting point is:
“Yes, I’m willing to give life after my death — unless I’ve said otherwise.”
Think about that.
We don’t have a shortage of people who support organ donation.
We have a system where people have to take the extra step to register.
And people forget.
People don’t get around to it.
People assume their family will know their wishes.
People think they’ll do it later.
And meanwhile, people are waiting.
Bruce was one of them.
We were incredibly lucky.
But somebody else’s family had the worst day of their lives — and somehow, in the middle of that unimaginable grief, they made the decision to donate.
That decision gave our family a future.
It gave Bruce another chance.
Why shouldn’t Canada make that choice easier for everyone?
Give people the right to opt out.
Absolutely.
But let’s make donation the default, not the exception.
Because if you’re willing to give someone the gift of life after you’re gone…
why should the system make it so easy to forget?
🇨🇦 Canada — it’s time to rethink organ donation.
