Canada’s healthcare crisis has entered a new and disturbing phase as the Liberal government funnels a billion dollars to fund care in foreign nations while Canadians at home are being euthanized because they cannot get the treatment they need to survive.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s latest move, pledging over a billion Canadian dollars to fund healthcare overseas, has become the tipping point for many who have watched Canada’s single-payer system crumble for years.
The announcement landed as the country continues to face a wave of avoidable deaths, including cases where desperate citizens are offered Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) instead of the care they were promised.
As Slay News previously reported, the failings of the nation’s socialized healthcare system have been exposed as a brutal reality as Canadians with chronic pain, neurological disorders, severe disabilities, or late-stage illnesses are increasingly being euthanized by the government’s MAiD program.
However, they are not “choosing” euthanasia because they want to die, but because they cannot endure the years-long wait times for specialists, surgeries, or basic life-saving procedures.
Some have explicitly said they only chose MAiD because they couldn’t access treatment, couldn’t afford private alternatives, and had nowhere else to turn.
Yet, while this system collapses at home, the government is sending mountains of cash abroad.
Canadian podcaster John Bolton summed up the outrage many are feeling.
He warned that “tens of thousands of your fellow Canadians are dying every year and nobody is discussing this,” calling the system “inefficient” and ruinously expensive.
He blasted Carney for giving “$1 billion for health care in Africa to developing nations” while Canadians freeze in food lines or die in hospital corridors waiting for surgeries that never come.
Bolton highlighted reporting that Canadian taxpayers are now on the hook for more than a billion dollars after Carney pledged major funding to a global health initiative ahead of the G20 summit.
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The Canadian government’s action mirrors the UK’s contribution of £850 million (USD $1.12 billion) to the same international fund, part of a massive global health pledge backed by the Gates Foundation and other wealthy donors.
Political defenders call these pledges acts of global solidarity.
But Canadians watching their loved ones die waiting for oncologists, cardiologists, or diagnostic scans see something else entirely: a government using public money to polish its international image while ignoring a silent domestic catastrophe.
And that catastrophe is not hidden anymore.
Wait times in Canada’s socialized system have exploded so severely that they now exceed 30 weeks in many provinces.
The Supreme Court has documented cases where patients died before even receiving a specialist appointment and where some, unable to access timely care, instead secured approval for MAiD in days.
This is the dark trade-off of socialized medicine: a system that promises universal care but rations treatment through waitlists, bureaucratic barriers, and cost-containment policies that push vulnerable people toward death as a “solution.”
Meanwhile, the Carney government insists there is no money for expanding surgical capacity, clearing backlogs, or providing adequate palliative care.
But there is money, billions of it, for global health projects abroad.
Bolton noted that this decision comes as Canadians battle soaring inflation, homelessness, drug addiction, and rising violence.
These are the very crises that overwhelm hospitals, ERs, and social services, yet still fail to move the government’s priorities back to its own citizens.
Other nations face similar failures, amplified by mass immigration that is straining government-funded healthcare at every level.
But Canada’s situation is uniquely disturbing because it has added another variable: a rapidly expanding euthanasia program that some fear is no longer a compassionate last resort but a cost-saving mechanism for a failing healthcare system.
The warning signs could not be clearer.
When the government sends a billion dollars overseas while its own citizens are dying before they can see a doctor, something fundamental has broken.
And when euthanasia becomes easier to access than treatment, the system is no longer healthcare; it is abandonment.
Slay News will continue exposing this crisis, and the political choices fueling it, as Canadians demand answers to a question their leaders refuse to confront:
Why is Canada funding the world’s healthcare while its own people are being pushed into euthanasia because they can’t get the care they need to live?
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