Politics & Government
MacDonald: Canada Is Killing Its Veterans
If you call Veterans Affairs, don't be surprised if your case worker suggests you embrace your suicidal thoughts.
Evidence abounds just north of the 49th parallel and, in some cases, below it.
Canada has, as predicted, turned Medically Assisted Dying into a budgetary austerity program. If whatever you have, or whatever they say you have, is more expensive to treat — and that is a long list — you might be classified as an eater. Someone who has no inputs and all outputs. A drain, and instead of spending taxpayer dollars to treat you, they will spend them on therapists and experts and closers whose job is to convince you that it was your idea.
You wanted to die.
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It is about compassion for the state, your loved ones, and total strangers who have to pay the freight, though they don’t mention that last bit. You are red on their ledger, and easing you into the sunset becomes job one. Age, illness, infirmity, mental health, economic status, and now post-military service.
