Thank you very much, Chairperson.
First of all, thank you to the witnesses for coming here today.
Thank you, Mr. Albrecht, for coming to our committee and presenting your bill. I know you've done a lot of work on this. We appreciate you being here today. Obviously, the witnesses have a wealth of information, but your interest in the issue and your dedication is very much appreciated.
I have a couple of questions.
Because we have the Mental Health Commission here, welcome to the committee for your first appearance.
I'm interested to see how either you, Mr. Albrecht, or the commission see your bill in relation to the work that the commission's already doing. You've told us today that in a few months you are going to be rolling out your mental health strategy, which I assume will be a national strategy because you're a national organization. In fact, we've been hearing about it for quite a few months. I know there's significant interest in the work that you're doing. I'm curious to know what the differentiation is between the bill and what you're suggesting, Mr. Albrecht, and what work the commission is already undertaking. That's one question.
The second question is concerning a strategy as it relates to reform of health care delivery. We've had a lot of discussion at this committee about the need to reform health care delivery and the need to focus on integrated primary care, health promotion, and disease prevention. So in terms of developing a suicide prevention strategy, how do you see that being delivered? Is it important to have stand-alone services—and maybe Ms. Nash will be able to answer this? Or do you see it more important to integrate with other community-based health promotion services, so that it's a one-stop shop, and there's a comprehensiveness? Or do you think it's better to have more stand-alone services?
So it's those two questions.