I will begin.
You are right. A year and a half ago, the Mental Health Commission of Canada announced the launch of a mental health strategy. It was very important for the provinces and territories to be part of this strategy. The Commissioner held a number of consultations on this. Some deputy ministers are part of the Commission. The Commission made it clear that the mental health strategy for Canada was not just a government initiative and that it included other sectors.
One of the things that I think the commission is undertaking is a series of initiatives to ensure it follows through with provinces and territories to measure effectively the progress of implementation, because as others have noted, mental health is not only around services that are obviously the responsibilities of the provinces and territories. There are other issues as well that are federal responsibilities.
That is why the Public Health Agency of Canada has taken on strategic direction number one, which is promoting mental health awareness. We look at all the recommendations contained within the strategy, with the view to seeing what we can do in terms of implementation.
