by Keith Griffith, Daily Mail:
- Christine Gauthier testified in Canadian Parliament on Thursday
- Gauthier, a paraplegic veteran, sought help getting a wheelchair lift at home
- A Veterans Affairs staffer instead offered medically assisted suicide, she said
- Government probe found at least four other veterans were also offered suicide
- Trudeau called called the trend ‘absolutely unacceptable’ and vowed to end it
- Euthanasia has been legal for terminally ill patients in Canada since 2016
- But last year law expanded to include people with long-term disabilities
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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’.
Army Veteran Christine Gauthier, a former Paralympian, testified in Canadian Parliament on Thursday that a Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) caseworker offered her euthanasia after she expressed frustration about delays in installing a wheelchair lift at her home
Gauthier competed in the 2016 Paralympic Games and Prince Harry’s 2016 Invictus Games (above) where she took gold in indoor rowing and heavyweight powerlifting
Gauthier said that she has been seeking VAC assistance in getting a chairlift for her home since 2017.
‘It has isolated me greatly, because I have to crawl down my butt with the wheelchair in front of me to be able to access my house,’ she told Global News.
She said she was shocked by the offer of suicide from the caseworker, which came in a conversation in 2019.
