Cancer patient fled Canada after being offered controversial assisted suicide program from ‘dystopian’ health system

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According to the couple, MAID was the best initial solution Canada offered to her upon her diagnosis.

Kristin Logan and Donovan James say they moved to Canada with their sights set on the financial and medical benefits of publicly funded health care — but say they encountered a “dystopian” system that offered medically assisted death before cancer treatment, prompting them to return to the United States.

“Canada has been slowly sliding into an entire dystopian situation. The way they’ve expanded the MAID system is frightening. It was never supposed to be used this way, to be offered so easily and so upfront when a person gets sick. I think it’s evil,” James told Fox News Digital.

“It was the most heartbreaking experience, to basically be set up to die. And if I wanted to live, I had to take my life into my own hands and leave the country. It’s pretty dystopian to think about now, to get information about ways that I can end my life and what the end of my life looks like before I’d even gotten an oncology appointment,” Logan continued.

Logan said she was first diagnosed in September 2023, leaving Canada later that month to get initial treatment. She later had a bowel obstruction in March 2024.

She had to leave the country again, and then returned in April 2024 before the cancer returned in December 2024.

The couple decided to leave Canada in January 2025 and officially moved back to the United States in May of that year.

MAID — Canada’s medical assistance in dying program — is described by Health Canada as “a health service that allows eligible people to receive help from a medical practitioner in ending their life.”

According to Kristin and Donovan, MAID was the best initial solution Canada offered to her upon her diagnosis.

The Atlantic has reported that MAID now accounts for about one in 20 deaths in Canada, “surpassing countries where assisted dying has been legal for far longer,” with some raising concerns the program has become too expansive.

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