As you probably know, Senator Kirby has been a strong advocate for mental health issues and the importance of allocating more money to mental health research and treatments. That's why $110 million was allocated to the Mental Health Commission of Canada for the completion of five applied research projects on how best to deal with mental health issues, particularly in relation to homelessness on the east coast of Vancouver Island.
Other projects will be conducted in Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal and Moncton. They will all focus on specific client groups. In Montreal, it will be immigrant communities whose mother tongue is not French. In Toronto, it will be immigrant communities whose mother tongue is not English, in order to see how these different client groups are affected, how to do outreach and how best to treat them when they have mental health problems.