Kelsi Sheren speech to the Canadian Parliament Veteran's Affairs Committee on October 28, 2025.
I served this country at eighteen.
I went to war on your behalf — a war we now know was built on lies.
I buried friends under the same flag hanging in this room.
And I’ve watched that same flag burned outside these walls while you all stand silent calling it freedom when we know its terrorism.
Here’s the truth: Canada doesn’t count veteran suicides, you never have.
If you don’t count us, you don’t have to admit you failed us.
Every single day since Afghanistan, another Canadian veteran dies by suicide — sometimes two or more.. but you wouldn’t no that.
And the Government of Canada still refuses to track it, publish it, or face it.
You hide behind one outdated study from 2016 as if that’s enough.
It isn’t. It’s cowardice.
We came home to neglect, bureaucracy, and betrayal.
When veterans reach out for help, this government sends investigators, not healers.
We’re followed, watched, and drugged — not treated.
And when that doesn’t work, your system offers us death.
I helped break the story when Veterans Affairs began offering MAID to veterans instead of therapy.
You said it stopped. It hasn’t.
You’re still offering MAID, still issuing NDAs and payouts to shut us up, I no this to be fact.
Over 20 veterans have confirmed offers of MAID, and I have proof of more.
Offering death to the people you sent to war is moral rot, and this government is full of it.
It is a betrayal of the highest order.
And offering MAID to people with PTSD is beyond insane.
Research shows 46% of those with PTSD have suicidal thoughts — and 19% attempt suicide.
You don’t offer them a needle, a paralytic and drug that fill your lungs as you drown to death in your own fluid… You offer them help.
Instead, you threaten our benefits if we speak out.
You silence us with bureaucracy and fear.
And your Veterans Affairs Minister — a figurehead with ZERO credibility — blocks veterans online for telling the truth. I know this because she called for a photo op with me and when I said no she began blocking my posts and comments on her social media for calling out her hypocritical behaviour.
Weak leaders like our Veterans Affairs Minister breed case managers who think they can get away with anything including offering to kill us.
One of the reasons I say this so confidently, is because I just did a press conference opposing MAID and the expansion.
At the same time Senator Pamela Wallin of Saskatchewan is facilitating a back door closed meeting with MP’S and Senators with Canada’s government funded pro death cult, dying with dignity.
Lobbying our government to continue to expand death as a solution for the disabled, homeless, Mentally ill and our veterans. The senator who said she cares about veterans lives and built a political platform off of us, is right now as we speak lobbying in another room to kill us.
You don’t fix a broken system by euthanizing the people who protected it.
And while you fund death and continue to expand, you deny life-saving treatments.
Psychedelic-assisted therapy is proven and peer-reviewed to treat PTSD and depression.
Other nations across the globe study it and successfully use it. Canada buries it in red tape.
I know, because I’m the only person in Canadian history to legally receive medical psilocybin outside clinical trials.
Before I was approved, Health Canada offered me electroshock therapy as a solution after over a decade of screaming for help.
Think about that — this government would rather electrocute a veteran’s brain than allow a plant.
One of the only reason I’m alive is because Apex Labs fought through the Special Access Program, not this government, they did everything they could to shut down my support.
Every treatment that’s helped me has come from outside Canada, except for Dr. Passy in Vancouver— The rest of the treatment was paid for by Americans like Heroic hearts project, defenders of freedom and private donors.
While you hand out opioids in vending machines, acting like your helping. We’re begging for actual solutions you refuse to provide.
This is what betrayal looks like.
You spend billions a year on Indigenous and veteran programs, yet the money never reaches the people who need it.
It dies in committees, paperwork, and photo ops.
Meanwhile, half a billion dollars goes to foreign wars — while the soldiers who fought for this one can’t get basic care.
So let’s be radically honest.
This hearing — this room — is theatre, everyone here knows it.
But somewhere in this country, a country that used to look and act like Canada, a veteran won’t make it to morning.
A family will lose their loved one.
Children will grow up without a parent.
And the void they leave will never, ever be filled.
It won’t be because they were weak.
Not because they didn’t try every minute of every day just to keep breathing.
It’ll be because a country that sent them to war and keeps sending kids to wars built on lies refused to bring them all the way home.
And it will be your fault. That blood will be on your hands.
I will tell anyone who wants to join: don’t.
They will leave you to die, and step over your body.
Veterans aren’t asking for pity. We’re demanding accountability.
Count every death. Publish the data.
Stop offering death as policy. Fund treatments that work.
Train case managers who actually understand trauma.
Stop selling our care to insurance companies.
You call us heroes when it’s convenient and “terrorists” when we speak up.
That’s not leadership. That’s shame.
We were trained to fight for this country.
Now we’re forced to fight against it — just to stay alive after serving it.
So yes — I live with PTSD, traumatic brain injury, and major depressive disorder, hearing loss and treatment resistant depression
But I’m still here. And I will spend the rest of my life exposing this government’s failures until no veteran or person in this country sees MAID as their only way out.
If you ignore us after today, every suicide that follows belongs to you too.
Because what you refuse to confront, you choose to allow.
Fund the real solutions.
Stop choosing drugs and death over healing and humanity.
We had a saying in uniform:
Never leave anyone behind.
It’s time this government started living by that.
Thank you.
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