Yes. Some 4,000 Canadians a year kill themselves, and we don't care. That's roughly 150--I forget; I did the calculation last week--Boeing 747s crashing, and that's just suicides. Our jails are full of people with mental illnesses. Far more people are in jails than are in hospitals or on the street with mental illnesses. As the Honourable Justice Ted Ormiston will tell you, when he was in charge of the Canadian mental health court, he was the biggest warehouser of people with mental illnesses.
When I talk about access to medications, I mean access to medications for people with disabling mental illnesses. Medications are very frequently our canes, our wheelchairs, our curb cuts. So when we talk about cost of medications, I talk about the cost to society of not making the medications available, and that goes far beyond health care costs. I understand restricting the calculation of costs to health care, but even in the costs of health care, the medications for people with mental illnesses are frequently at the low end of the cost scale, and certainly nowhere near where immunosuppressant drugs are or where cancer drugs are. The bang for the buck for readily available mental illness medication is quite great.
I think maybe in the new CDR you might want to consider a fast-track process for medications that have been approved and used around the world, that are safe and facilitate recovery quickly. I don't know. There are some scientific issues, and others, but there has to be a way to get our medications to us more quickly.