Article By Frank Bergman
A Canadian husband is sounding the alarm after the country’s government-run healthcare system tried to euthanize his wife instead of saving her life, forcing the couple to flee to the United States, where she received treatment that has since put her cancer into remission multiple times.
The explosive testimony from Donovan James has gone viral after he accused Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) regime of abandoning his wife, Kristin Logan, to die while refusing to provide life-saving care.
According to James, leaving Canada wasn’t a choice.
It was the only way to save her life.
“They Tried to Kill My Wife”
“It’s been 2 1/2 years since my wife first fled Canada to save her life in the United States from stage four ovarian cancer after the Canadian healthcare system left her to die,” James said.
He said Canadian doctors told his wife there was nothing more they could do and dismissed HIPEC surgery as a treatment that would never save her.
Instead, he says, the system left euthanasia as the path forward.
“If we stayed in Canada, her only option would have been to kill herself on MAID because they had no treatment for her; they lied to her and said that the HIPEC surgery wouldn’t ever save her life, but it did,” James said.
James said the failures did not stop there.
He said the healthcare system lost his wife’s chemotherapy requisition before treatment even began, leaving her without cancer treatment while her condition rapidly deteriorated.
Every trip to the emergency room, he said, ended the same way.
“Every time” she went “begging for help in the ER” because her “lungs were filling in with fluid, and she was drowning in them, they kicked her out and sent her home with opioids because they didn’t have anybody there to drain her lungs,” James said.
“So now she’s getting closer to death and in a wheelchair. In a last-minute decision, she decides to try her luck in the United States.”
America Saved Her Life
Logan, who is both a Canadian and American citizen and also served in the U.S. Air Force, crossed the border to Seattle, where doctors immediately began chemotherapy and performed HIPEC surgery.
James says the treatment Canadian doctors dismissed ended up saving her life.
She later returned to Canada to spend time with family because James was unable to remain with her in the United States.
The nightmare quickly resumed.
James said she once again found herself inside a Canadian hospital “rotting and dying, and nearly about to go septic.”
After watching the same cycle repeat itself, the couple decided they had reached their breaking point.
“We decided enough is enough and we got me a green card,” James said.
“There’s No Death Cult Here”
The couple has since relocated to Texas, where James says the contrast with Canada could not be more dramatic.
“Nobody talks about death,” he said.
“In fact, last week, my wife is doing so well on chemo … she’s going into a third remission, she’s back squatting 175 pounds for five in the gym last week.”
“Does that sound like somebody who’s ready to die, Canada?
“Does that sound like somebody who needs to kill themselves with MAID?”
“I’m so grateful to be here in the United States, I’m so grateful especially to be here in Texas. I love Texas.”
“There’s state-of-the-art health care.
“There’s no waiting, there’s no bullsh*t.
“There’s no death cult here, just good care.”
Although Logan later revealed that her cancer has returned and she is now undergoing a 13th round of chemotherapy, James says she is still alive today because she escaped Canada’s euthanasia-first healthcare system before it was too late.
Canada’s MAiD Regime Under Intensifying Fire
Canada legalized euthanasia in 2016, and the country’s MAiD program has expanded at a rapid pace ever since.
Hospitals have repeatedly come under fire for offering assisted suicide to vulnerable patients suffering from chronic illnesses, disabilities, or those in need of long-term care.
Slay News has previously highlighted the case of Roger Foley, a disabled Canadian with a degenerative brain disease whose advocate says the hospital caring for him has repeatedly promoted euthanasia while failing to provide the care he needs to survive.
Unless lawmakers intervene, Canada’s euthanasia law is set to expand again in 2027 to include people whose sole underlying condition is mental illness under Bill C-7.
Marking the tenth anniversary of legalized euthanasia, Canada’s Catholic bishops issued a warning against growing acceptance of what they described as a culture of death, urging Canadians to reject complacency toward a practice they said can “never” be morally acceptable.
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