You're going to help me to die but you won't help me to live?'

Philippe* knew he didn't have long to live, and he had just one request. He wanted to see the film Dune: Part Two, before he passed on. The only problem was that the scheduled release date wasn't for another few months, and he didn't know if he had that much time left.

But then Josee Gagnon stepped in. Gagnon's job involves “accompanying” people at the end of their lives, and she contacted the filmmaker of Dune, who sent his assistant to Philippe's palliative care home in Quebec with a laptop, for a personal, top-secret screening of the film. Philippe passed away before it was released to the public.

It may appear that Canadians care for the quality of life of their fellow citizens with health issues—or at least, Gagnon's organization, L'Avant, apparently does. The government of Canada, on the other hand, has a different set of priorities when budgeting for Canadians with serious illness.

Christine Gauthier is 52 years old and an Canadian army veteran. Fortunately, she is not dying. But she is severely disabled due to a spinal cord injury, and she applied to have a wheelchair lift installed in her home.

Canada's Veterans Affairs office offered their assistance, but it wasn't quite what Gauthier had in mind.

[They told me] if you're so desperate, madam, we can offer you MAID, medical assistance in dying.

Gauthier testified before the Canadian House of Commons veterans affairs committee.

You're going to help me to die but you won't help me to live?

At no time had Gauthier expressed any “despair” regarding her life. In fact, she is well-adapted to living with her disability to the extent that she's actually a Paralympian.

Here's another story out of Canada:

Kayla Pollock, from Ontario, is 37 years old. She's fortunately not dying either. But she is almost completely paralyzed, since 11 days after her Moderna mRNA booster shot. After over a year of attempts to receive government assistance, she was finally assigned a case worker. She's still trying to get a service dog for help with daily tasks. 

But it didn't take Canadian authorities years or months to suggest MAID euthanasia "services" to her. In fact, she was offered access to Medical Assistance in Dying twice during her initial hospital stay, right after her paralysis was diagnosed.

Mark Meincke, like Gauthier, is an army veteran. He, too, was offered MAID in place of genuine help—twice—by a Veteran Affairs caseworker who told him that if he agreed, he wouldn't be the first ex-soldier to take the VA up on the offer, which came with an implied promise of assistance for his family:

He told me, “We can do this for you, because we've done it before, and one veteran that we've done this for, after we completed MAID, we now have supports in place for his wife and two children.”