Public Safety committee  I would just address that, and since we are the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, say that they are intertwined. We serve many people with concurrent disorders. They're not always seen together. The key is to have the most appropriate services for people, so you have to have accurate assessments of whether the person has only a mental illness, only an addiction problem, or both together.

Public Safety committee  I don't work in prisons, and I can't really comment on that. I think what we know is that people who are in prisons and have mental illnesses identified, have addiction problems identified, not all of them are getting the help they need. From my reading of some of the testimony before this committee and some of the reports, it sounds like maybe half of the people who are identified with mental health problems—and these tend to be fairly serious mental health problems—get the help they need.

Public Safety committee  Thank you. I too would like to thank you very much for the opportunity to appear before this committee. CAMH, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, is the largest mental health and addictions facility in Canada. We're a teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, with central clinical and research facilities.