Psychologists are employed by many public institutions. CSC is the largest employer of psychologists. They do risk assessments and they deliver treatment, depending on venue, provincial and territorial. They work in schools. They work in hospitals. One of the challenges, though, is that we've really seen the practice profile of the profession change over the past couple of decades, the prime example being Toronto. A lot of teaching hospitals decreased their salaried resources, so psychologists are more in the private sector. Hospitals may maintain, well, this resource is still accessible to people; it's in the private sector. But once it's in the private sector it's no longer funded.
The other challenge I just want to underscore is that psychologists are very successfully self-employed; it isn't a pocketbook issue. It's a challenge because you have people coming in needing care who don't have the resources to pay for it, and that's difficult when you're a health provider and what you want to do is help people.
