Key Points
- Christine Gauthier, a 52-year-old retired corporal who competed in the 2016 Paralympics at Rio De Janeiro, asked her Veterans Affairs caseworker if she could have a wheelchair lift installed in her home.
- The VA official offered an alternative: a written offer to provide her with a medically assisted suicide kit. The unnamed caseworker reportedly has made the same offer to other veterans.
- While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned the incident, the fact is that assisted suicide has become an accepted alternative since Canada passed its medically assisted suicide law in 2016.
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