MAID Offered Canadian MP’s Father Assisted Suicide, But He Never Requested It

On September 1, 2026, I published an article about a woman in a London, Ontario hospital who was upset after twice being offered euthanasia without requesting it.

The woman was particularly upset when the woman in the bed next to her, who didn’t request euthanasia, said Yes to death by euthanasia, after the MAiD [Medical Assistance in Dying] team sold it as a “beautiful death” at her bedside.

Bob Zimmer, Member of Parliament for (Prince George – Peace River – Northern Rockies) published a comment on X after his father, who did not ask for euthanasia was offered MAiD while the family was waiting to bring him home.

Zimmer wrote:

I watched a nurse at our local hospital offer MAID to my Dad. He was not asking for it, nor had he asked for it.

We were trying to get him home as he was about to pass away and he wanted to be at home to be more comfortable.

So while we were waiting to be cleared to take him home, a nurse approached us and offered MAID to him.

I was disgusted. All the warnings about MAID we debated in the HoC [House of Commons] and warned would happen with the change in legislation and the Liberals said would never happen… …are happening.

Now Canada has the terrible record of having the most MAID deaths in the WORLD at 16,499 in one year alone.

Tamara Jansen, Member of Parliament for (Cloverdale – Langley City) during her Bill C-218 speech, offered a similar story about her brother. Tamara stated in her powerful speech:

In 2023 he was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. He knew he was dying but wanted to live. But the medical staff at Abbotsford hospital seemed to want to end his life.

While laying on a bed in the hallway on the oncology ward he was asked, not once, not twice, not three, four, or five times but six separate times if he wanted MAiD!

They were relentless.

They pressed him saying that they didn’t think they would be able to control his pain, scaring him out of his wits, but he still had the will to live.

So that final time he gave them a big Hell No!

Thank you Bob Zimmer and Tamara Jansen for sharing your personal stories.

Being pressured to die by euthanasia (MAiD) is not uncommon. These stories need to be told.

Contact the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition at: [email protected] if you have a similar story.

LifeNews.com Note: Alex Schadenberg is the executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition and you can read his blog here.