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Disabled Canadian Army veteran Paralympian blasts government for offering to EUTHANIZE her when she complained about how long it was taking to install stairlift at her home
UK Daily Mail ^ | 12/03/2022 | Keith Griffith

Posted on 12/03/2022 7:45:19 AM PST by DFG

A disabled veteran in Canada has slammed her government for offering to euthanize her when she grew frustrated at delays in having a wheelchair lift installed in her home.

Retired Army Corporal Christine Gauthier, a former Paralympian, testified in Parliament on Thursday that a Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) caseworker made the assisted suicide offer.

After years of frustrating delays in getting the home lift, Gauthier says the caseworker told her: 'Madam, if you are really so desperate, we can give you medical assistance in dying now.'

The worker who made the offer hasn't been named, but they are feared to have offered three other veterans who contacted VAC with problems the same 'solution', Global News reported.

The scandal emerged a week after Canada's veterans affairs minister confirmed that at least four other veterans were similarly offered access to Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) law in response to their troubles, a situation Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called 'absolutely unacceptable'.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: assisted; assistedsuicide; bigcuppastfu; canada; deathpanels; euthanasia; gauthier; paralympian; socializedmedicine; suicide
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1 posted on 12/03/2022 7:45:19 AM PST by DFG
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To: DFG

Canadian politics is satanic.


2 posted on 12/03/2022 7:46:28 AM PST by Bob434 (question)
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To: Bob434

Yes it is.


3 posted on 12/03/2022 7:48:42 AM PST by sauropod (Fascists also buy Comcast cable packages" - Olby - Wanna buy mine?)
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To: Bob434

Secular politics is satanic. Fixed it for you.


4 posted on 12/03/2022 7:50:09 AM PST by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: DFG

At least they’re being polite about it... for now.


5 posted on 12/03/2022 7:57:55 AM PST by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: DFG

We can not be friendly to leftists who demand government murder us one by one.


6 posted on 12/03/2022 7:58:17 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: DFG

Has their suicide hotline become a how-to help center?


7 posted on 12/03/2022 8:06:47 AM PST by GMMC0987
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...we can give you medical assistance in dying now.

Instead of later, when they finally get tired of paying for your health care, except for that last medication that just helps you to sleep...permamently. They'll happily spring for that one.

8 posted on 12/03/2022 8:09:02 AM PST by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: Sarcazmo

The ‘MAID’ moniker is a Nice touch.
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Just add French and you’d
Have a Winner.
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9 posted on 12/03/2022 8:10:26 AM PST by Big Red Badger (We Are JONAH)
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To: DFG

... the caseworker told her: ‘Madam, if you are really so desperate, we can give you medical assistance in dying now.’

The worker who made the offer hasn’t been named, but they are feared to have offered three other veterans who contacted VAC with problems the same ‘solution’, Global News reported.

Historically referred to as “the final solution”.


10 posted on 12/03/2022 8:16:51 AM PST by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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To: DFG

state-run, socialized medicine is there to help with all the things they deem you need.


11 posted on 12/03/2022 8:21:32 AM PST by PGR88
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To: DFG
About 3 years ago my wife's uncle,a WW2 Navy vet needed a stair lift to get up his stairs. My wife's brother made a few calls to Veterans Affairs and it was installed about 3 weeks later and didn't cost a dime.
12 posted on 12/03/2022 8:33:50 AM PST by 4yearlurker (Meditate on Heavenly things.)
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To: DFG

Will we ever find out whether this ghoul called a “caseworker” has been fired? I doubt it. The Culture of Death has overtaken Canada. It’s overtaking us here, too, but has not gone quite as far. Let us pray hard. And work hard against it, too.


13 posted on 12/03/2022 8:34:24 AM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: Big Red Badger

“Would you like to receive email notifications? During December we have an ‘Add-a-Friend’ special.”


14 posted on 12/03/2022 8:38:31 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: DFG

Sounds like Death Panels to me. Are they still mocking Sarah Palin for that?


15 posted on 12/03/2022 8:38:41 AM PST by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven )
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To: DFG

F Canada.


16 posted on 12/03/2022 8:46:30 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald)
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To: ponygirl

Spot on.


17 posted on 12/03/2022 8:55:51 AM PST by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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<>"'Madam, if you are really so desperate, we can give you medical assistance in dying now.'"<>

"Caseworker, we can give you military assistance in dying now." would be the proper retort.

Damn, Justin Fidel is as evil as his father...and cheating mother.

18 posted on 12/03/2022 9:00:10 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (When did my Color TV become Colored TV? And Gay?)
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To: DFG

Sounds like the “Babylon Bee”...


19 posted on 12/03/2022 9:03:13 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: DFG

About 15 years ago, when I (an American) was working for a Canadian energy company based in Calgary, I was listening to two co-workers talk about their herniated disks. The Canadian had been told it would be nine months or so before he could get corrective surgery. The Canadian was describing how he was having his desk redesigned to be ergonomic and setup to allow him to stand and sit as needed.

The American was describing how he was scheduled for surgery next week.


20 posted on 12/03/2022 9:31:57 AM PST by Kershul (Kersh)
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