"No indication" medically-assisted death offered to Canadian veteran, deputy minister says

Canadian Veterans Affairs Deputy Minister Paul Ledwell told a standing committee on Monday that there was "no indication" from a review of files that the idea of medical assistance in dying (MAiD) had been offered to Paralympian and retired Canadian corporal Christine Gauthier.

"Those files have been reviewed, they were reviewed as part of that 402,000 and through that full review, they have subsequently been reviewed based on the issues that the veteran raised on Thursday. There's no indication in the files, in any correspondence, in any notation based on engagement with the veteran on reference to MAiD," he said.

Last week, Gauthier testified before the same standing committee on veterans affairs and told them that the department had offered her, in writing, the opportunity for a medically-assisted death. She said they had even offered to provide the equipment.

Ledwell said if Gauthier had material or indication of such an offer, they would "welcome" reviewing that information as part of its investigation into reports of veterans being offered medical assistance in dying, something that Veterans Affairs Minister Lawrence MacAulay has called "totally unacceptable."

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