The Ben Mulroney Show - Ben talks with a father who had to remove his child from a Canadian hospital to save his life

Episode Date: December 31, 2024

Ben talks with a father who had to remove his child from a Canadian hospital to save his life Guest: Nicolas Tétrault If you enjoyed the podcast, tell a friend! For more of the Ben Mulroney Show, subscribe to the podcast! https://globalnews.ca/national/program/the-ben-mulroney-show Follow Ben on Twitter/X at https://x.com/BenMulroney Enjoy

This next conversation, I'm so glad we were able to make this happen. I was blown away by the candor and emotion in this father's social media post that lays bare a very real struggle that he had. He had a shocking experience at a Canadian hospital, claiming that he was told his child would be taken off life support. His child, ask yourself what you would do in this case. Ending his child would be taken off life support. His child. Ask yourself what you would do in this case. Ending his life with plans to harvest his organs.

This father said, absolutely not. I'm going to fight for my son. Transferred him to a hospital in New Orleans. And in just 30 days, the child made a miraculous recovery, breathing on his own, free of ventilators and out of the intensive care unit. This father is now gathering evidence, says he has all the records of all the things that went wrong north of the border. He's got the receipts.

He claims he's got names and the investigation has just begun and he's going to blow the whole thing wide open at some point. I'd like to welcome Nicolas Tetreault to the show. Nicolas, thank you so much for being here. And please tell me right off the bat, how is your son doing today? Thank you very much for having me on the show. He's doing much better than a month ago. A month ago, he would have been dead on November 29th or unplugged.

So he's doing good. No assisted ventilation, no respirator, no dystonia, or if you call it, you know, when they're involuntarily contracting your muscles when you have brain injuries. What happened to him? Tell me about the injury itself. Yeah, the injury itself. October 8th, you know, we have six children, and we had rented a house because we sold our house, and we had to move rapidly. Long story short, I rented a house, and in the offer to lease, it was written that the owner, who's a real estate lawyer, by the way, was supposed to install a fence on or before June 1st.

And at a certain moment, you know, parents can't be perfect all the time. My two-year-and-a-half son, Arthur, opened the door and went and jumped in the pool. But thank God it was like three degrees Celsius. We found him unconscious, you know, the fingertips black, his lips black. He was dead, basically. His lungs full of water. So I emptied his lungs. I had learned CPR for five years.

I did CPR mouth-to-mouth, called obviously the ambulance, and they were able to resuscitate him. But he was in a really difficult situation. They brought him to the Montreal Lakeshore, then the Montreal Children's Hospital, which is supposedly world famous. And then they were able to stabilize him. But he was really, really, Ben, honestly, overly drugged. I had undercover doctors come to the hospital to look at all his charts. I was going to the archives already, taking copies of everything. And Nicolas, let's slow it down. I think it's important for our listeners to understand, you know, he goes in, it's not looking good for him.

How long was he in treatment at the Children's in Montreal? In total, including the two weeks notice we had received that they would unplug our son and to prepare our funerals, seven weeks. He was there seven weeks. At what point? Week number five, they tell us, Ben, that that's it for them. They have like this little death squad, two doctors that, you know, in the province of Quebec, I don't know if it's like that in English or in English Canada,

but basically the parents lose their right, their decisional rights on their children once they're admitted in a severe condition in the hospital. The hospital has the right to end the life of the child, even if the parents disagree. Yeah, but Nikhil, I want to go back to some of the things that you mentioned in the video, because you said you were asking them to do things, you were recommending that certain treatments happen,

they had access to the treatments treatments and they said no. At what point did you lose faith that that was the right place for your son to be? Well, quite rapidly because we were in contact. People don't know, but I ran for election. So, you know, I have some sort of a pedigree. So I was in contact with a world famous doctor in new orleans dr harsh paul harsh who is the doctor that has it was ultra specialized in drownings of children he saved 160 children that were diagnosed as vegetables basically brain

dead or brain injured and brought him back to life and they go back to school today normally they they swim and they do so i had called him he had told them And they go back to school today. Normally, they swim and they do. So I had called him. He had told them what to do, basic stuff that they could have done, like giving our child 45 minutes to an hour a day of 30% oxygenation, which costs nothing, like 50 cents. And that already helps to reverse and to cure damaged areas of the brain. They said no.

We showed them, argued with them on many things. Like, you know an MRI. When you do a scan of the brain, an MRI, you can see a damage. And sometimes when you go in hyperbaric treatment, you see that it improves. And at the end, it's sometimes 100% cured. And we showed them the studies of Louisiana State University, 38 years of protocol of drowned children, and they even refused to look at it. They said it's incorrect, impossible, it goes against all science.

Long story short, they were refusing everything and all the evidence and even medicine professors were calling them to explain it. They said no, no, no, no to everything. It's like the dice were ripped. So you take him down to New Orleans and the video is very compelling. And I'm so glad that your son is doing well and better. But what are you hoping happens next? There's clearly a sense of injustice has been done. I can hear it in your voice. You're talking about an investigation, heads will roll. What do

you mean by that? Well, there's two things I would like to do. First, I feel really a lot of pity and de la peine, a lot of sadness, exactly, towards parents. You know, I'm lucky. I have a pedigree. I have a CV. Imagine parents that have, like, little education, no means whatsoever, and they're put in front of an accomplished fact, and there's two daughters that unilaterally decide that their children will be unplugged, you know, and disposed of, you know.

That's one of the things. The other thing is, I really am, you know, I'm going to sue, honestly, I'm going to sue the three doctors that imposed us. You know, after five weeks, you cannot decide if a child is okay. And basically, we found out that he was two to 200% to 300% over drugged. And I have about 12 American doctors that looked at all the files, and he was really over drugged. So how can you assess, Ben, a child that is 200%, 300% overly drugged?

The amount of sedation they were giving him is enough to put their horse down. And children, you know, adults, when they have a heart attack, they can stay in the hospital for six months, nine months, sometimes until they get better. Why had they decided after five weeks unilaterally and over drugging our son over and above any normal recommendations that they would unilaterally dispose of him without the parents' consent. Imagine when you're in your room. You're in the room with the doctors. The two of them, they decide if your son is going to live or die. And the American doctors were

questioning this. Nicola, what were you thinking? When they said it was time to turn off the machines and harvest your son's organs and plan for his funeral, as a father, what did you think? I was going to have a heart attack and I was going to beat their ass, honestly. But I'm super educated and civilized. I didn't do that.

But for the first time in my life, I had a criminal, for a minute or 30 seconds because you just feel helpless. They're just judge and jury. And that is really, really rare. And contrary to emails, we had like other pediatric doctors from around the world called them to say they've seen cases 80 percent worse. And the children are going to school today. So I really felt injustice that the dice were rigged. I really felt hopeless and without any power, dear Ben. Honestly, it was the worst experience of my life. And my wife does not even want to come back to Quebec ever again.

You have no idea. I know you have three children. Imagine if you're stuck in. Imagine if they, you know, you're stuck in that situation when they decide. And you have other doctors telling you because we had sent all the files that they've seen cases, you know,

80% worse than ours. Nicola, unfortunately, we're going to have to leave it here. But I do hope, I want to thank you for giving us this update. And I hope that you'll come back to the show and give us updates as this story proceeds. Thank you very much. And all my best to you and yours in 2025. Thank you so much.