An employee of Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) who allegedly suggested military veterans consider euthanasia is no longer employed by the department.
Erika Lashbrook Knutson, spokesperson for Minister of Veterans Affairs Lawrence MacAulay, said privacy rules prevent the government from disclosing whether the female employee was fired or resigned. She was first suspended.
“We had to follow to the letter the process laid out in the collective agreement with the union,” she said on Dec. 20.“That kind of a process has some pretty rigid requirements on privacy and non-disclosure. But as of today, that employee is no longer an employee.”
In November, MacAulay testified before a House of Commons veterans affairs committee meeting that an investigation discovered as many as five Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) veterans were offered assisted suicide when they contacted an agent for help, but said it was an isolated incident with a single Veterans Affairs agent….