{"id":520518,"date":"2022-12-03T18:12:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T15:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/canada-offered-to-help-euthanize-christine-gauthier\/"},"modified":"2022-12-03T18:12:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T15:12:17","slug":"canada-offered-to-help-euthanize-christine-gauthier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/canada-offered-to-help-euthanize-christine-gauthier\/","title":{"rendered":"#Canada offered to help euthanize Christine Gauthier"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a23a315544a5\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: 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Parliament Thursday that a\u00a0Veterans Affairs Canada caseworker offered the opportunity for a medically assisted death \u2013 and even to provide the equipment, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/christine-gauthier-assisted-death-macaulay-1.6671721\">according to the CBC.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a letter saying that if you\u2019re so desperate, madam, we can offer you MAID,\u00a0medical assistance in dying,\u201d said Gauthier who injured her back during a 1989 a training accident.<\/p>\n<p>Testifying in French before the House of Commons veterans committee, she also said she\u2019s been fighting for a home wheelchair ramp for five years and\u00a0expressed her concerns about the assisted dying offer in a recent letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/christine-gauthie-04.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Gauthier recently testified in French about her harrowing experience of being offered assisted suicide.\" class=\"wp-image-24883926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/christine-gauthie-04.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/christine-gauthie-04.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/christine-gauthie-04.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Gauthier recently testified in French about her harrowing experience of being offered assisted suicide.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">CBC\/<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Youtube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI sent a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau and that they [Veterans Affairs] offered me MAID and would supply equipment,\u201d said Gauthier.<\/p>\n<p>Gauthier\u2019s ordeal is \u201cabsolutely unacceptable,\u201d Trudeau said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are following up with investigations, and we are changing protocols to ensure what should seem obvious to all of us: that it is not the place of Veterans Affairs Canada, who are supposed to be there to support those people who stepped up to serve their country, to offer them medical assistance in dying,\u201d added the prime minister.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/trudeau.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Gauthier's ordeal was &quot;unacceptable.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-24883943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/trudeau.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/trudeau.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/trudeau.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Gauthier\u2019s ordeal was \u201cunacceptable.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In testimony before the same committee last week, Veterans Minister\u00a0Lawrence MacAulay\u00a0revealed at least four other Canadian military veterans were offered the MAID option by a now-suspended veterans service agent. 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