Thank you.
Obviously the much-elevated suicide rates among young aboriginal people is of great concern to Canadian society as a whole. I was gratified to see in the budget that the national mental health commission initiative is funded and is starting to be up and running. But in the meantime, we do have a national aboriginal youth suicide prevention strategy, which is funded to the tune of $65 million by the federal government.
We're collaborating with aboriginal communities. We're working with our provincial and territorial counterparts. We want to get the experts who can advance some evidence-based suicide prevention strategies. That's there to support the mental health of our young people on-reserve within those communities, perhaps, and to devise some community-based suicide prevention programs.