I know we're very short for time, but it's very simple. I did the study on emerging treatments for veterans and first responders two years ago. You said that you were going to give us funding for psychedelic-assisted research. You said that we had the proof. You said that we had the evidence. Give us that.
The next step you need to take is to stop Manulife. Stop it. Stop it completely, across the board. You need to stop giving us case managers who don't speak English. I'm not exaggerating, and I'm not kidding. We will not answer the phone to them. They are triggering as hell. You need to stop over-prescribing pharmaceutical drugs. Ketamine does not work in the long term.
I'm going fast because we don't have time.
You need to start looking at things like physical fitness, actual community, diet and exercise. Stop doing SSRIs. They are damaging. Fitness is two times more effective than SSRIs. Stop giving us a drug for the morning and the night. Stop telling us we're liars. Stop telling us it's not happening, because we can prove it. Also, stop telling us that we have to stop praying a certain way when we have our Remembrance Day ceremonies.
These things in our community matter, but our community is broken when you tell us we can't say things out loud. We actually have true solutions. You're not hearing us.
Don't tell me you don't have money. You just gave $189 million to Black-owned businesses. You gave $500 million to Ukraine. You gave another $100 million somewhere else, and you're hiding more taxes through our Prime Minister. I'm telling you there is money.
We want to help ourselves. Our own charities do it. My business helps do it. It fills the gaps that you haven't. We have the solutions. You're tying our hands, putting bricks on our feet, throwing us in the ocean and saying, “We don't have the solution.” Those are lies. Those are excuses. We have the solutions.