Canada's Veterans Affairs offered a disabled Paralympian assisted suicide when she asked for a wheelchair lift.
Now an American Air Force veteran fighting stage four cancer says Canada had a message for her too.
And it landed in her mailbox before the one appointment she was desperate to get.
She Waited Nine Months for a Stage 4 Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis in Canada
Kristin Logan is a U.S. Air Force veteran and dual citizen who was living in Canada when she got sick.
"It took nine months to even get to a place where I was diagnosed," she told Laura Ingraham on Fox News.
When the answer finally came, it came in an emergency room – stage four metastatic ovarian cancer.
Then she waited for the oncology team to call.
The phone hadn't rung yet.
The mailbox had.
"As I'm waiting for even the first call from the oncology team, I get this pamphlet in the mail basically telling me that I can go and kill myself," Logan said.
It was literature on Medical Assistance in Dying – the euthanasia program Canadians call MAID.
"I hadn't even seen an oncologist yet before I got that pamphlet."
Her doctors told her she was being "fast-tracked."
Logan called that "ridiculous."
American Doctors Gave Her the Cancer Treatment Canada Would Not
Logan crossed the border to Washington state.
Doctors in Seattle started chemotherapy and performed HIPEC surgery, which bathes the abdomen in heated chemotherapy right on the operating table.
Her husband, Donovan James, later secured a green card, and the family moved to Texas.
In a video Ted Cruz shared, James put it bluntly: "Canada left my wife to die and rot in the Canadian healthcare system."
"This is evil, absolutely evil," he said.
Canadian doctors told Logan she would not live two years.
Three years later, she is still here.
The cancer came back early in 2026, and she went right back to chemo – and right back to the gym, posting workout videos along the way.
"The medical care I've gotten has been outstanding," Logan said.
Canada's MAID Euthanasia Program Now Accounts for One in Twenty Deaths
Logan's story is not a fluke.
Canada's latest federal report counted 16,499 MAID deaths in 2024 – 5.1 percent of every death in the country.
Justin Trudeau's Liberals sold euthanasia in 2016 as a last resort for the dying.
By 2021, they had opened it to Canadians who were not dying at all.
Next up, in March 2027, Canada is scheduled to offer euthanasia to people whose only diagnosis is a mental illness like depression.
Meanwhile, the Fraser Institute found Canadian health care wait times hit a median 28.6 weeks in 2025 from a doctor's referral to actual treatment.
In 1993, that wait was 9.3 weeks.
Christine Gauthier, a retired corporal who competed in the 2016 Paralympics, told Parliament that a Veterans Affairs case worker put the offer in writing.
"I have a letter saying that if you're so desperate, madam, we can offer you MAID, medical assistance in dying," she testified.
The same case worker reportedly made similar offers to at least three other veterans.
In July 2026, 83-year-old Brigitte Stegemann died by MAID at a long-term care home in Cannifton, Ontario, and her family says she never gave proper consent.
She had said euthanasia conflicted with her Christian faith.
When the assessor asked whether she had any siblings, she said none – she was one of 14 children.
The doctor declared her competent anyway.
Her granddaughter, Brigitte Kranendonk, who held her power of attorney, called the MAID practitioners "inappropriately ideologically motivated."
Belleville police are now investigating.
Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition has been documenting cases like hers one family at a time.
Assisted Suicide Laws in Illinois and New York Open the Door Canada Walked Through
Canada's 2016 law limited euthanasia to people whose natural death was "reasonably foreseeable."
Five years later, that limit was gone.
J.B. Pritzker signed Illinois' assisted suicide law in December 2025, and it took effect in September 2026.
Kathy Hochul signed New York's in February 2026, making New York the 13th state to legalize assisted suicide.
Both laws promise it is only for patients with six months or less to live.
Canada made a promise like that too.
Pritzker said his law honors patients' "strength and courage."
Kristin Logan showed real strength and courage – she turned down the pamphlet and fought for her life.
She got a death pamphlet before she got an oncologist, and she survived because she had somewhere to run.
That somewhere was America.
If Illinois and New York follow Canada down this road, where does the next Kristin Logan go?
For now, she is in Texas, lifting weights, fighting cancer and very much alive.
Sources:
- Denette Wilford, "'Dying' Woman Flees Canada for U.S. After She Was Given MAID Pamphlet," Toronto Sun, September 22, 2026.
- Alex Schadenberg, "Yes, Brigitte's Story About GG Being Killed by Euthanasia Is True," Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, September 23, 2026.
- Craig Bannister, "Canadians With Cancer Who Fled to U.S. Condemn Socialized Healthcare," CNSNews, September 22, 2026.
- Hannah Nightingale, "Canadian Man Refuses MAID for Cancer-Stricken Wife, Takes Her to U.S. for Immediate Treatment," The Post Millennial, April 13, 2026.
- Health Canada, "Sixth Annual Report on Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada, 2024," 2025.
- Fraser Institute, "Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2025 Report," December 9, 2025.
- Anders Hagstrom, "Canada Offered Assisted Suicide to a Paralympian Veteran Who Wanted a Wheelchair Lift Installed," Fox News, December 4, 2022.
- Fox 32 Chicago, "'Right to Die' Bill Signed Into Law by Gov. Pritzker," December 12, 2025.
