𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐋 𝐏𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝐑𝐎𝐆𝐄𝐑 𝐅𝐎𝐋𝐄𝐘’𝐒 𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐄𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐏𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 — 𝐇𝐄’𝐒 𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐕 𝐅𝐋𝐔𝐈𝐃𝐒 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐄 Roger Foley has spent more than a decade trapped inside a London, Ontario hospital — not because doctors can save him, but because Canada’s government-run healthcare system refuses to fund the home care he says would let him live safely in his own apartment. Foley, who suffers from the degenerative neurological disease cerebellar ataxia, has said flatly: “𝘈𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘺∗𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦.” Foley didn’t just allege the pressure — he 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐝 hospital staff at London Health Sciences Centre offering him medically assisted death instead of the self-directed home care team he’d requested. In a separate recorded conversation, a hospital ethicist told him he’d be billed roughly $𝟏,𝟖𝟎𝟎 𝐚 𝐝𝐚𝐲 to remain in the hospital if he refused their terms — a bill Foley says was designed to push him toward the exit through MAID instead of through his own front door. He sued the hospital and Ontario’s health agencies in 2018. The system’s answer wasn’t to fix the care gap — it was to fight him in court. Foley’s lawsuit was struck, and he was ordered to pay the hospital’s legal costs for daring to ask a government health system to let him live at home instead of dy∗ng in it. The retaliation didn’t stop there. In May 2025, staff removed the specialized lighting equipment Foley needs to eat safely — without it, they ruled oral feeding too dangerous. He’s been sustained on 𝐈𝐕 𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞, still hospitalized, still denied the home care he’s spent a decade begging for. This is what Canada’s healthcare system looks like when a disabled man asks for help instead of a lethal injection: struck lawsuits, legal bills, and a feeding tube swapped for an IV line. Foley is still fighting — not to d∗e, but to go home. 𝐑𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐝𝐲∗𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞. 𝐇𝐞’𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥. washingtontimes.com/news/201…