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𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐋 𝐂𝐔𝐓𝐒 𝐎𝐅𝐅 𝐑𝐎𝐆𝐄𝐑 𝐅𝐎𝐋𝐄𝐘'𝐒 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐃 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐑 — 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐍 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐇𝐈𝐌 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐃 For more than a decade, Roger Foley has been trapped inside London Health Sciences Centre in Ontario, Canada — not because he's too sick to leave, but because the government won't fund the home care that would let him live outside its walls. 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦, he has said, again and again, even as the hospital keeps offering him a way out that isn't recovery. In May 2025, staff removed the specialized amber lighting Foley needs for severe photosensitivity. Once it was gone, they judged oral feeding unsafe — and he 𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐝 𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞. He has gone as long as five weeks without being fed at all, kept alive on IV fluids that provide incomplete nutrition and risk damaging his veins. 𝘏𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘧𝘧 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘥𝘢'𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘋𝘺∗𝘯𝘨, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘐 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘺, Foley has said. It's his own brother sounding the alarm now. Robert Foley emailed hospital officials directly: 𝘔𝘺 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘥∗𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 — 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘥𝘰𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰, he wrote. The same institution licensed to save lives has instead been presenting Roger with a menu: $1,800-a-day hospital care, inadequate home care, or medical assistance in dy∗ng. Foley refused all three. He sued the hospital in 2018 over the coerced MAID offer — and the courts struck the case down. Nearly a decade later, 𝐧𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 for withholding the food, water, and home-care funding a disabled man says he needs just to survive. This is what Canada's euthanasia regime looks like up close: not a compassionate choice offered to the dy∗ng, but starvation pressure applied to a man who has never stopped saying no. 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐫-𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 that's supposed to protect him, are the only reason Roger Foley is still being fed today. 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐝𝐚'𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 — 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭.