Specifically on first nations, Inuit, and Métis suicide prevention, the mental health strategy will include a significant focus on the mental health issues of that population. The focus is on contextualizing that in the context of residential schools and the impact of colonization. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which is under way right now, is an important point of reference for this committee as well.
There's improving access to a full continuum of services for mental health problems that integrates the best of mainstream and traditional and customary knowledge from first nations, Inuit, and Métis traditions. Also, there's the importance of governance issues. There's been research undertaken around the importance of communities having governance over their own services and so on. The most clear findings from the research community around the importance of supporting communities to have governance over their own services and institutions is another critical part that will be brought forward in the mental health strategy.
We'll certainly be making those recommendations for uptake, and recognizing the ways in which a national mental health strategy in this country has to include a strong focus both on the contributions and the needs of that population group.