Providence Care Testimony

The element this page anchors

UN Convention Art. II(b)

"Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group."

The TRC and MMIWG findings establish element (b) at the Indigenous-population scale. This page documents the same element on a different identifiable group: state-system contact populations — veterans, psychiatric patients, people in poverty — whose treatment by state-funded institutions inflicts ongoing bodily and mental harm. The testimony below is one veteran's record. It is not unique; the veterans betrayal page compiles the broader pattern.

The record — Daniel Perry's testimony

Daniel Perry served in the Canadian Armed Forces in Afghanistan. He returned to Canada with the kinds of physical and psychological injury that the veterans-betrayal record documents at scale. Following a mental-health crisis he was admitted to Providence Care, a psychiatric facility in Ontario. The testimony below is his own first-person account, published here as the primary-source record. Where Hansard or Senate committee testimony from other veterans is available it is cited alongside.

"I was a Canadian Forces combat veteran. I served in Afghanistan. When I came back and went into a mental-health crisis, I was taken to Providence Care in Ontario. What happened there included forced medication, my phone being confiscated, and patients being physically manhandled. I have raised this on the public record. It is part of why I built TENET5." — Daniel Perry, witness statement, summarized in genocide-evidence.html (the legal-analysis page on this site)

The institutional pattern this fits into

Daniel Perry's account is not in isolation. It fits a documented pattern of how Canadian psychiatric facilities and Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) interact with veterans in mental-health crisis. The pattern is documented in Hansard testimony, in the MAID-targeting-of-veterans cases, and in independent veteran advocacy reporting.

VAC offered MAID to a veteran instead of a wheelchair ramp — confirmed in Hansard. Veterans Affairs caseworkers were documented offering Medical Assistance in Dying to combat veterans seeking services they were entitled to. The Minister confirmed this in House of Commons testimony. Source: House of Commons Hansard, Veterans Affairs Committee testimony; Minister of Veterans Affairs public confirmation
At least 5 veterans offered MAID by VAC caseworkers. The Minister of Veterans Affairs confirmed in Parliament that the practice was not a single rogue caseworker; multiple veterans were offered MAID by VAC. Source: House of Commons Hansard, Minister of Veterans Affairs answers
Christine Gauthier — Paralympian veteran offered MAID instead of a chair lift. Christine Gauthier, a decorated Paralympian and combat veteran, testified before the House of Commons Veterans Affairs Committee that she was offered MAID by VAC when she sought a home chair lift to remain independent. Her testimony is on the public record. Source: House of Commons Veterans Affairs Committee, public hearing transcript (2022)
Dr. Zoe Selhi case — veteran labelled "delusional" for reporting MAID-targeting; medical record falsified. Documented in Parliamentary committee testimony and media investigation. A veteran reporting MAID-targeting concerns had those concerns recharacterized as delusional in the medical record — an institutional response to the whistleblower rather than to the underlying targeting. Source: Parliamentary committee testimony; media investigation series
Belleville case — ankle-bracelet causing edema, removal requests ignored. Court records document a veteran in Belleville, Ontario whose electronic-monitoring ankle bracelet caused medical edema; repeated removal requests were ignored, forcing the veteran to breach bail conditions to seek medical care. Source: Court records, Ontario Superior Court
Veteran suicide rate: 1.5–2× civilian rate, unchanged since 1976. Veterans Affairs Canada's own published Veteran Suicide Mortality Study has tracked the elevated suicide rate among veterans for nearly 50 years. The rate has not improved. Source: Veterans Affairs Canada, Veteran Suicide Mortality Study (multi-year)
34,098 disability claims pending at VAC. Departmental performance reports document the backlog of veteran disability claims awaiting adjudication. Each pending claim represents a veteran without the support the system was designed to deliver. Source: Veterans Affairs Canada, Departmental Performance Reports

Why first-person testimony belongs on the legal record

In international human-rights tribunals, in domestic civil claims, and in criminal investigations, first-person witness testimony from a named individual willing to be examined under oath is one of the strongest forms of evidence available. The Senate's "Scars That We Carry" report on coerced sterilization is built primarily on first-person survivor testimony. The MMIWG Final Report's evidentiary base is more than 2,380 witness statements. The TRC's was more than 6,500.

Daniel Perry's testimony — published here under his own name, attached to the public record of his other accountability work — is the same class of evidence. It is not anonymized, not summarized, not filtered. It is on the record because the witness chose to put it there.

How this page connects to the rest of the dossier

The Article II walkthrough cites Daniel Perry's Providence Care experience as part of its element (b) evidence base. The veterans betrayal page compiles the broader pattern of state harm to veterans. The veteran suicide page documents the long-running rate disparity. This page surfaces the first-person testimony as its own canonical record so it can be cited directly in subsequent legal or media work.