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QUESTION PERIOD — Ministry of Veterans Affairs

Report Recommendations

October 23, 2025


Thank you for being here today, minister. I appreciate that. This will be probably a third go at a similar question that started with Senator Housakos earlier. I am coming back to the report entitled The Time is Now and the whole area around psychedelic therapies.

We build a culture of trust in committee. These folks tell their stories and will come in believing that we don’t care and that nothing is really going to change. So I add to my two colleagues who have spoken to this: This is a desperate situation. Because we build a culture of trust and because we provide these opportunities to listen. That takes work with folks who are that traumatized. They now inform us each time a veteran takes their life. They now inform us each time they fundraise $15,000 to get these treatments in another country. We are really, urgently desperate to be able to do the things that other countries are doing successfully. We won’t have the trust, and now I have a question.

The Hon. the Speaker pro tempore [ + ]

Minister, sorry, time is up. I must remind senators that you have 1 minute for the first question and 45 seconds for the second, and that the minister has 1 minute and 30 seconds for the first answer and 45 seconds for the second answer. Thank you. Minister.

Hon. Jill McKnight, P.C., M.P., Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence [ + ]

I appreciate the continued advocacy, senator, that you are raising. As I mentioned, we want to make sure that every veteran with an illness or a condition is able to access the best possible care, and we are continually monitoring ongoing research in the field of developing treatments.

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