Thank you for that. I was just going to make a couple of comments.
I really think it goes back, first, to the stigma. Using the medical example, diabetes or any other physical illness that requires us to take medication seems to be easier to swallow. We still need to continue to educate in our communities across Canada and get that message out there that it's okay, that this is an illness.
You're right. I think because of the stigma, people don't want to take medication. Sometimes it's because they don't want to admit that they have a mental health issue, because we kind of put it that way as Canadians. We need to say that it's okay. It's okay to have depression. You didn't ask to have depression, anxiety, or bipolar disorder, just as you didn't ask to have cancer or any other physical illness. We need to keep that message coming forward.
Just as a tie-in, because you were talking about that stigma, I'll give you an example. A high school in our region recently did a whole campaign in support of this bill. They decided to have a suicide prevention day and sign a petition for this bill, and just talk about it. The peer advisor that led this came to me and said that because of that day, four students came forward who said that they had been struggling with suicidal thoughts and that because we had made it open and possible for them to talk about it, they had now reached out to counselling and support and were getting the help they needed. There were four individuals, because we had that day of breaking down those stigmas.
I really think that's the first step.