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Canadian veteran, ex-Paralympian offered assisted suicide by VA office after seeking help

Updated: December 7, 2022 at 5:57 pm EST  See Comments

Wed Dec 7, 2022 – 4:41 pm EST

(LifeSiteNews) – Retired corporal Christine Gauthier, who competed for Canada at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics and the Invictus Games that same year, told the House of Commons veterans committee last week that she was offered help to commit suicide when she was trying to acquire a wheelchair ramp from Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC).

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She told the committee that she was offered “medical assistance in dying,” which is a type of medical suicide commonly referred to as MAiD.

“I have a letter in my file,” she said, referring to the offer from VAC to help her kill herself.

“I have a letter saying that if you’re so desperate, madam, we can offer you MAiD, medical assistance in dying,” she added.

She wrote a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attesting to what had happened and said she was even told that VAC would “supply equipment” necessary to kill herself.

Gauthier reacted to the affair in an interview with Global News, saying, “I was like, ‘I

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