Canada hides tax dollars going to abortions in Uganda and Mozambique

Dear Information Commissioner,

I would like to submit my complaint to you regarding my ATIP to Global Affairs using Sections 20(1)(b) and 20(1)(c) of the federal Access to Information Act. See attached letter below. It would seem that this refusal is a work around to an open, transparent, accountable government. 

The tax dollars going to these third party organizations (Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights, Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) the Guttmacher Institute) are hidden from public scrutiny by the very fact that they are given to these organizations through the primary source organization (Oxfam), so that they can be hidden from public disclosure. 

IPPF is a global international company and the Guttmacher Institute is an American company--they aren't even Canadian companies and yet the Canadian dollars they receive is hidden from Canadian scrutiny. None of this is in the public interest.

In other words, if I am a company that does not want the public to know how much money I am getting from the government (AKA the public purse), I simply need to piggyback onto a primary company who receives funds and voila, the public is none the wiser of where their hard earned tax dollars are going and what they are being used for. 

This is definitely not open, not transparent, and not accountable to the public.

Can you please look into this?

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Patricia Maloney

My ATIP that I was refused access to:

“For this contract to Oxfam. How much of the grant went to (or will go to) Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights? Agreement Number: 7433891P008437001. Also what other organizations received monies from this contract, and how much money did each of them receive, or will receive? Also how much did International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) the Guttmacher Institute receive, or will receive?”

This is what the $19,638,400 grant was for:

"This project aims to improve access to high quality and gender-sensitive sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services for vulnerable adolescent girls and young women, between the ages of 15 and 24, in Mozambique and Uganda. Projects activities include: (1) recruiting and training peer educators and facilitators to raise awareness of topics related to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) amongst beneficiaries in the targeted communities; (2) holding training sessions for adolescent girls and women, and engaging with men, boys and community-leaders to raise awareness of SRHR and address discriminatory social norms; (3) delivering training to health care providers and providing local health care facilities with the appropriate equipment to deliver gender-responsive and youth-friendly SRH services, including access to contraceptives, safe abortion (where legal), post-abortion care, and secondary prevention services for gender-based violence; and (4) organizing advocacy campaigns alongside local women’s and girls’ rights organizations to push for better and more accessible SRH services, and the adoption of rights- and evidence-based policies in both Uganda and Mozambique. The project seeks to benefit nearly 500,000 people, 95% of whom are adolescent girls and young women between the ages of 15 and 24. Oxfam Canada is implementing this project in partnership with the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), the Guttmacher Institute, Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights, and various Women’s Rights Organizations and Youth-led Organizations across Uganda and Mozambique."

Final thought. Why are Canadian taxpayers paying for abortions in Uganda and Mozambique? And why are Canadian tax dollars paying for "organizing advocacy campaigns" for abortion in Uganda and Mozambique?

Why do tax payers have to fund LGBTQ organizations?

From the Ottawa Citizen: LGBTQ+ charities and non-profits face increasing financial struggle. Fae Johnstone the executive director of Queer Momentum:

We need to support the organizations making equality real. 

Ah, no we don't. I don't want to give any more of my tax dollars to LGBTQ ideology. Canadians already give LGBTQ millions.

LGBTQ+ charities and non-profits deliver critical services and programs to the most vulnerable queer people. In Ottawa and across Canada, they're facing the perfect storm: economic precarity, government belt-tightening and corporations rescinding financial support, all made worse by a social and political climate increasingly hostile to LGBTQ+ acceptance. 

Cry me a river. 

If they want more money to fund their ideology let them fundraise for it. They've already received enough from the taxpayer. Kind Space received $1,077,389 in the past five years from government. Ten Oaks received $334,019. And Queer Momentum has received $395,325 for a total of almost $2 million dollars.

One of the commenters on this article made some excellent points as to why we do not need to fund these charities:

Sexual-identity-based charities rest on the flawed premise that people require different forms of support because of who they are, rather than because of what they are experiencing. Homelessness, depression, addiction, trauma, and poverty are sadly universal human conditions in our society. They do not become categorically different when experienced by LGBTQ+ individuals. Creating parallel, identity-filtered charities ultimately fragments service delivery, duplicates infrastructure, and diverts what is already scarce funding from more deserving outcome-driven programs that serve far more people.

In a time where Canadians have few and few dollars to give to charities, part thanks to our Liberal government running out of other peoples money, prioritizing identity over demonstrated need and measurable effectiveness is just plain inefficient and worse yet, exclusionary. It also risks turning charitable work into ideological signaling rather than practical problem-solving. Universal challenges are best addressed through inclusive needs-based institutions that treat people equally and allocate resources based on severity and impact. Compassion scales when it is universal and outcome-focused; it weakens when it is segmented by identity. Charity should reduce suffering, not organize it along political or social classifications.

Dying with Dignity lobby lobby lobby

Dying with Dignity lobbies more government bureaucrats and politicians.

• Rachel Putnins, Director of Parliamentary Affairs, MP Will Greaves | House of Commons
• Thomas Law, Advisory, Policy and Regional Affairs | Justice Canada (JC)
• Julie Robinson, Legal Counsel for Constitutional Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations | Justice Canada (JC)
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More tax dollars to sexual and reproductive health and rights

Minister Valdez announces $15.5 million in federal funding to strengthen national women’s organizations across Canada

"This investment will help advance the work of organizations focused on justice, leadership, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and gender-based violence. The organizations that will receive funding will be selected in the coming weeks.

The Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW) will receive up to $1 million to collaborate with other national women’s organizations, as well as key stakeholders beyond the women’s sector. This initiative will support a more sustainable and coordinated sector that is better positioned to advance action on persistent gender inequalities over the long term."

What nonsense. Our government already gives way too much funding to women's organizations. Why are we giving more? How about we pay down our massive debt instead?

Dying with Dignity's lucrative death business

In 2024 Dying with Dignity Canada had $9,231,137 in assets, of which $7,370,174 was in long term investments. They have so much of their money in these long term investments that clearly they don't need those funds to run their day to day business, so they invest them. They made $752,804 in interest on those long-term investments and an additional $3,038,792 in donations in 2024. 

Dying with Dignity aggressively fund raises because (unbelievably) there's still lots more money people want to give them. And because they are a charity, they do not pay federal income tax on their earnings. 

Truly the euthanasia business is a very very successful business model. 

Dying with Dignity attacks conscience rights

Dear Health Minister Marjorie Michel and Justice Minister Sean Fraser,

I am writing to you to tell you that I am appalled at Dying with Dignity's court challenge to end forced transfer for medical assistance in dying. DWDC argues that https://www.dyingwithdignity.ca/advocacy/institutional-religious-obstructions/

"Individual clinicians have the right to object, for conscience reasons, to providing MAID or other medical treatments. The issue of IROs is not about the objection of clinicians, but that of institutions, which do not have conscience rights."

Bollocks. Institutions are made up of individual people. These individual people work in these institutions because they share the values of the institution. In this case it means that the health care providers at the institution must have their conscience rights protected. 

Dying with Dignity uses their millions in donations to fight against the conscience rights of people who are against participating in the evil of state sanctioned euthanasia. They have the money to lobby government (and they do so incessantly) and are hell bent on forcing these institutions to be involved in this killing. This is diabolical. 

Our government must protect the conscience rights of these health care providers at all of our hospitals to not commit MAID. IT is the ethical and moral thing to do.

Sincerely,

Patricia Maloney

National Association of Federal Retirees hosts webinar from Dying with Dignity

Dear National Association of Federal Retirees,

I just wanted you to know how upsetting it was to see that the Association of Federal Retirees is promoting a seminar from Dying with Dignity about MAID. I am against euthanizing people. It is an immoral and unethical action to kill people who are ill, instead of providing them with compassionate care and or palliative care to help them in their final days.

Dying with Dignity pushes their death agenda onto Canadians by using donations from Canadians to lobby government into pushing for more and more greater use of MAID. 

Even the UN has spoken out against our horrific MAID regime:

https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/un-committee-rightly-calls-out-canadas-systemic-devaluation-of-disability-david-shannon-in-canadian-affairs/

https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/un-committee-rightly-calls-out-canadas-systemic-devaluation-of-disability-david-shannon-in-canadian-affairs/#:~:text=By%20David%20Shannon%2C%20June%209,foreseeable%20%E2%80%94%20to%20qualify%20for%20MAID.

https://www.cardus.ca/news/news-releases/statement-regarding-un-committees-call-to-reverse-maid-expansion-in-canada/#:~:text=The%20UN%20Committee%20on%20the%20Rights%20of,MAiD%20for%20mental%20illness%20should%20be%20reversed

Unsuspecting vulnerable members may attend the webinar without realizing that Dying with Dignity is the major advocate of euthanasia in this country, and that this webinar will most certainly discuss MAID.

I hope that you will reconsider hosting this webinar from Dying with Dignity, and instead provide access to another provider.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Patricia Maloney

Dying with Dignity lobbies MP Dan Mazier

The pro-deathers never stop. Dying with Dignity's latest lobbying efforts to MP Dan Mazier.

When talking about MAID: "I absolutely love data"

Here is the final part of my most recent ATIP regarding Dying With Dignity. 

The friendly, chummy, cozy relationship between Health Canada and DWDC is on full display in these 75 pages of the document where we see all the back and forth between the two about a webinar that Health Canada does for the pro-deathers. In particular this webinar has the Senior Analyst, Strategic Policy of the End of Life Care unit of Health Canada presenting data on MAID.

After the webinar the Health Canada analyst tells the pro-deathers how she just LOVES data. Remember, we are talking about data concerning the people in Canada who have been killed by euthanasia. 

And the senior analyst looks forward to doing it again next year. So fun.

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From DWDC

Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2023 4:28 PM

To: End of Life Care people at Health Canada

Subject: Re: Presenter status

Hello,

Thank you so much to you for joining us today. XXXXX and XXXXX let me know that they could barely keep up with the rapid-fire questions from our audience, that's how engaging the session was today! In total, we had 411 attendees during the session. The numbers fluctuate slightly for technical issues or folks that join/leave, but we evened out at about 400.

I just wanted to say thank you both for such a fantastic webinar. Your insights, expertise, and enthusiasm was infectious throughout the session. Have a look at some of our feedback:

• Very interesting and valuable information. This data will be so important when our politicians are tasked with the potential upcoming legislation.
• An excellent overview of the data which has encouraged me to now go and read the full report.
• Annette's love of data and her passion was evident throughout. Thank you to both presenters - nice to see a colleague, Blain, building and adding to the Q&A. It is about evolution of data and getting this info out to dispel myths.
• This has been a first-class presentation in every way. The slides were so very good and easy to understand and great, easy-to-listen-to speakers. Thank you so much.

I know I speak for all of us here at DWDC when I say that it has been a privilege to work with you from start to finish, and that we at DWDC would be delighted to keep in touch for future collaborations, perhaps when the next Annual Report is published next year. I hope that you both have a wonderful holiday season and a Happy New Year.

Sincerely,

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From: End of Life Care presenters at Health Canada

Sent: November 22, 2023 6:23 PM

Subject: RE: Presenter status

Hi XXXXX,

Thank you so much for this feedback! It was a pleasure to work with you and to present this data today. I absolutely love data, the story it tells, and how it helps us move forward. It was fantastic to see so many folks engaged in the topic.

Thank you also for the excellent moderation. Once I got going into the presentation, it was totally seamless from beginning to end!

Appreciate your support, and look forward to next year (:Wishing you the best for the upcoming holiday season!

Best regards,

Ontario's double standard anti-semitism VS anti-abortion

Dear Doug Ford,

Regarding Fr. De Souza's article today in the National Post, I have a question to ask you.

Remember Canada's so-called safe abortion act https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/17s19 that discriminates against peaceful people praying outside abortion clinics? A discriminatory bill that you have allowed to stay in place since you came into power? Well radical anti-semitic protesters continue to get a free pass to harass and yell and disrupt outside Synagogues and Jewish neighbourhoods in Ontario.

Pro-life people who prayed quietly outside of abortion clinics are a world of difference compared to these other violent and abusive protesters. Yet you do nothing to stop them.

If pro-lifers were to act similarly at any abortion clinic in Ontario they'd be locked up so fast your head would spin. Doug Ford, can you please explain this double standard to us?

I look forward to your response.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Patricia Maloney

Dying with Dignity's chummy relationship with Health Canada continues

Dying with Dignity is way too friendly with the Department of Health, including the many Ministers of Health. Bureaucrats bend over backwards to make sure that Ministers meet with Helen Long and her pro-death organization. It's really creepy if you ask me.

In this memo below, "there is no specific topic of discussion" for this meeting request from Dying with Dignity, yet the meeting will still go ahead. DWDC just asks for a meeting with the Minister and bingo, they get it. Just like that. Nothing specific to talk about. Why does this pro-death bunch get to have the ear of the Health Minister whenever they want to? Do those opposed to MAID also get a meeting with the Minister whenever they want to? I doubt it.

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REQUESTOR’S NAME - NOM DU DEMANDEUR Barb French [of the Ministerial briefing unit]

DATE 2023-09-25

NUMBER - NUMERO 23-109024-214

REQUEST ORIGIN - ORIGINE DE LA DEMANDE

Minister's Office/Cabinet du Ministre

SUBJECT - OBJET

Minister Saks' Office Request: PS Fisher to meet Dying with Dignity Canada

REQUEST - DEMANDE (YYYY-MM-DD)

(1)Date 2023-09-25

SPB:

Minister Saks has delegated an introductory meeting with Dying with Dignity Canada to Parliamentary Secretary Fisher the week of Sept 25th. Time and date are TBC and there is no specific topic of discussion. However, should it be helpful for context, a recent meeting request (23-007471-535) is attached. When assessing the meeting request for the Minister, SPB recommended that the meeting take place with the following rationale: DWDC is a key stakeholder that supports MAID and aims to provide clear and factual information to Canadians about MAID, the legislation, the process and providing supports and resources to people who wish to know more and who wish to access MAID.

DWDC is an advocacy group and does want to see a broader MAID and end of life regime in Canada that it believes aligns with the Canadian Constitution and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In meeting with this organization, the Minister could learn about relevant ‘on the ground’ views on system and clinician preparedness for the lifting of the mental illness exclusion clause on March 17, 2024. The organization is also focussing [sic] advocacy efforts calling for the Government [to] expand legislation again to allow for advance requests for MAID. Quebec recently passed amendments to its provincial MAID legislation to put in place an advance request regime for MAID in the next 2 years (which is not in alignment with current federal law). The Minister may wish to listen to their thoughts on this kind of further expansion

Please prepare a Memo to the Minister of Mental Health and Addictions [Note: This position was abolished in March 2025. Thank you Mark Carney.] for a meeting, points to register and a bio (this may include updating a recent note). Also please identify an individual to participate in a pre-brief as well as the meeting.

Kindly submit the requested materials and confirmation of participant[s] to MBU by Sept 27, at 4:00. Templates attached. Should contacts for Input from other areas of the Health Portfolio be required, kindly let us know.

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Next we have the memo to Minister Saks about this upcoming meeting. It is a nine (9) page memo. Summary of memo below:

MEMORANDUM TO THE MINISTER OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTIONS AND ASSOCIATE MINISTER OF HEALTH Meeting with Dying with Dignity Canada / Reunion avec Dying with Dignity Canada

SUMMARY

• Your office has accepted a request to meet with Dying with Dignity Canada (DWDC). Parliamentary Secretary Fisher will meet with Helen Long, Chief Executive Officer, DWDC during the week of September 25th.

• DWDC is a national human-rights charity committed to improving [the] quality of dying, protecting end-of-life rights, and helping people across Canada avoid unwanted suffering.

• Health Canada has had many interactions with DWDC over the past number of years. While they have been strong supporters of Government of Canada MAID policy, they have also been critical of the lack of progress in areas such advance requests.

• Points to Register are included in Appendix A and a biography of CEO Helen Long is included in Appendix B.

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You will be happy to know that DWDC's office is still located on Canada's Indigenous peoples' land. I guess that means they still haven't given said land back to the Indigenous people.

Dying With Dignity Canada's national office is located within Treaty 13, the traditional home of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples. Our presence on this land is not to be taken for granted. We are grateful for the opportunity to share, meet, collaborate, live, and work on this land.