Finance committee  We've talked about that explicitly.

Finance committee  —because it's not as bad as first nations, but it's not good. But you'd have to go beyond first nations and Inuit. As I said, a primary focus will be first nations and Inuit, but you have to include the rest of the population as well. I guess I would describe that as a pragmati

Finance committee  Extremely, and we know it does that.

Finance committee  Addressing the stigma issue, which a lot of people are now doing, sort of began when the Senate report came out, and it as escalated over the 10 years since then, but just attacking awareness or stigma is not going to solve the problem with the individual children and youth who h

Finance committee  I absolutely agree with your evaluation. It's scandalous. I actually thought about doing that, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that if you were going to get broad support for it, you really had to go beyond first nations, and I include Inuit—

Finance committee  The evidence from elsewhere in the world—it hasn't been done in Canada—is that you have to do, as I said, a whole community approach, which means all of government services but a number of private sector services and volunteer services. You essentially have to get them all coordi

Finance committee  Partners for Mental Health has been going for about a year and a half. Our intent was, and still is, to build the kind of social movement that exists with breast cancer. We've already recruited 70,000 members and that number is growing. None of the organizations you mentioned a

Finance committee  They are not doing the kind of empirical work on the ground that is required to ultimately make a difference. I've always been—

Finance committee  At this point we haven't had anything to collaborate on with them because I've been out building a social movement. None of them are into the business of building a social movement. We're the only people doing aggressive social marketing, so there hasn't been anything.

Finance committee  I'm asking the federal government to do as it did with the homeless mentally ill. They contributed $100 million over five years to run projects in 25 different communities targeted specifically at finding out what really works, not theoretically, but in fact in practice.

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. The clerk and I believe we have a way of showing you a short video, with 30 seconds in English and 30 seconds in French, and I'm going to take the first minute of my time to do this. Since I didn't bring my grandchildren to make sure it was goi

Finance committee  —I'm relying on the clerk to try it. Go ahead, please. It's on your iPads, as I understand it. [Video Presentation] Thank you for that. I thought it would set the scene for the rationale for my proposal. As an aside, that particular public service announcement was played a