I think the suffering in silence that you're talking about is a very common experience, even in people in whom the signs of mental illness may be obvious to other people but where the stigma prevents open discussion about this common human experience, which affects six million Canadians every year. Every year six million Canadians experience some form of mental illness. It's in our workplaces, in our schools, in our homes, in our communities, in our faith organizations—wherever you want to look.
Again, some of the upstream efforts are to change the culture and climate, to change the dialogue around mental illness, to better train people in the community—non-professionals—to recognize of the signs of mental illness, and to encourage people to get help. Will there always be a group who are caught unawares by people who will end their lives by suicide whom nobody picked up on, nobody recognized? Yes, there will be, in the same way that there will be people who have heart attacks with no outward symptoms of cardiac disease before they die of a heart attack. This doesn't change the fact that there is a much larger group of people with whom we can intervene earlier.
The mental health strategies initiatives, if they're implemented by the governments that have the power and the authority to do so—because the Mental Health Commission does not run mental health services in any jurisdiction, but works collaboratively with the people who control the resources to do so—there is the potential to improve the detection, the recognition, the intervention, and the acknowledgement.