Veterans Affairs Canada Closes Investigation, Confirms Four Incidents Where MAiD ‘Inappropriately Discussed’

Minister of Veterans Affairs Lawrence MacAuley in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) has closed an investigation into allegations that veterans were offered assisted suicide, stating it found only four incidents where medical assistance in dying (MAiD) was “inappropriately discussed,” according to a report.

“VAC has concluded these were four incidents completely isolated to a single employee” and that “this is not a widespread, systemic issue,” said the report on MAiD allegations, delivered on March 10 to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs.