Emails show May, NDP MLAs pressed for euthanasia of illegal immigrant
Emails published by Kelsi Sheren show Green Party Leader Elizabeth May and two British Columbian NDP MLAs pressured B.C.’s Ministry of Health to give an illegal immigrant MAID.
Emails published by military veteran and anti-euthanasia advocate Kelsi Sheren show Green Party Leader Elizabeth May and two British Columbian NDP MLAs pressured B.C.’s Ministry of Health to give an illegal immigrant health coverage to access taxpayer-funded assisted suicide.
As reported by Sheren on her Substack, Freedom Information Requests have revealed that May, then BC NDP cabinet minister Murray Rankin, and BC MLA Adam Olsen all lobbied BC’s Health Minister, Adrian Dix, over a two-day period in 2021. They asked him to grant a Medical Services Plan (MSP) to a non-citizen and non-permanent resident. Their request was made so the individual could access the federal government’s euthanasia program.
The emails show that the three elected officials knew that the woman—whose name was redacted from the files—could not access the Medical Assistance in Dying program because she did not hold citizenship, permanent resident status, or a permit of any kind. They attempted to circumvent the immigration process by giving the foreign national a Personal Health Number (PHN) so she could access Canada’s healthcare system and legally be assisted in committing state-sanctioned medical suicide.
“(She) is not a permanent resident of Canada; therefore, she is not eligible for coverage under normal circumstances. Her application for temporary MSP coverage to receive a temporary PHN is due to serious illness,” the Green Party leader wrote in her letter of request. “Please support (her) request to be granted temporary MSP coverage to access end-of-life care through MAID.”
Internal emails, which were elevated to “high importance” within BC’s Ministry of Health, show that the individual had been a “visitor” to Canada since 1990/91 and does not hold a permit of any kind in Canada.
May noted the individual’s collaboration with her community and mentioned charitable donations the individual made to a charity whose name was redacted in the 269 pages of the FOI request to obscure the individual’s identity.
Rankin wrote his letter signed as the “Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation.” He was also explicit that he wanted to give an “emergency MSP number” to the foreign national in order to “enable her to receive the compassionate end-of-life care” he said she “so richly deserves.”
Rankin said that he believed circumventing Canada’s rules around providing healthcare coverage to a non-resident and non-citizen and giving the individual access to medical suicide was “the very least” the government could do to “honour such a remarkable contributor to our community.”
Olsen, also a former BC NDP MLA, noted that the unnamed non-citizen was not eligible for health coverage as a “non-resident” but that she should be allowed to die through the government’s euthanasia program because she has “paid taxes in Canada for the same amount of time” and has contributed to her local charity groups.
He noted that the individual was even willing to pay out of pocket to access “MAiD,” but that she still needed a Personal Health Number to do so.
“MSP had advised that the client cannot qualify for MSP without a foundation document (permit, PR, citizenship). With receipt of additional letters of support calling for MSP to be granted on compassionate grounds, MSP Beneficiary Services is actioning as appropriate,” the internal email reads. “If MSP is granted, and all other eligibility criteria and safeguards are met, MAiD could proceed.”
It is unclear from the FOI pages released by Sheren whether the visitor to Canada was ever given the emergency PHN to access Canada’s euthanasia program, nor if she was fast-tracked to permanent residency to access the program traditionally.
Neither BC’s Ministry of Health, May, Olsen, nor Rankin responded to True North’s requests for comment and further information.
In her Substack article, Sheren called for a “formal ministerial conduct investigation” into the coordinated political push to have a non-Canadian voluntarily killed by the state. She said an ethics review needs to be done on all parties involved, particularly May, who still holds office, to “assess misuse of authority, inappropriate intervention, and violation of health policy boundaries.