Global News published this video item, entitled “Struggling Canadian veteran offered medically assisted death by VAC employee” – below is their description.
Canadian military veterans are outraged after a Veteran Affairs Canada (VAC) worker offered medically assisted death to a former soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and brain injuries.
Multiple sources tell Global News the combat veteran never raised the issue, nor was he looking for Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID) and was deeply disturbed by the suggestion. Multiple sources and VAC have told Global News that the discussion took place.
In this exclusive story, Mercedes Stephenson has the VAC’s response, and the fears this will discourage other veterans seeking help.
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Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
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