For sure. This one's personal.
During the pandemic, my nephew was killed by an impaired driver. As part of honouring his legacy, I was in touch with different folks in the province, and I also knew the premier at the time, and looking at the strains that are on communities right now—urban, rural, what have you—in terms of mental health and addictions and so on, they show the strains in communities right now.
The raison d'etre for this group was to try to get supports to individuals, families and communities before their mental health or addictions pressures got them into the red zone. That was my reason for joining that group.
I cleared it with all of our relevant values and ethics people to make sure there was no conflict of interest before doing that on a volunteer basis.
We organized an inaugural national summit on alcohol use that I think was fundamental in tabling some new issues and helping to think about whether we are on the right track with that.