As with most national data collection, we are always challenged by identifying comparable data across the country. For that reason, we work with our colleagues in the provinces and territories on developing specific indicators so that we can all collect the data in the same way and report on them in the same way.
We have, and have had for some time, good data on the occurrences of specific mental illnesses. We have started to supplement those data where we can, and Statistics Canada, of course, is a great help to us through the national surveys it does. When we want to know more about the factors that are affecting resilience or some of the more complex measures of positive mental health, that's where the work that we have started to do with the Mental Health Commission of Canada and with our other partners is really important to us. At the end of the day, what our experts tell us is that the ability of children, as they develop through early childhood, to develop those coping skills and the ability of parents to develop parenting skills are the precursors to the resilience to deal with life's adversities down the road and to develop positive mental health.
That is why we are focused now on work that will establish what indicators Canada needs to measure over the long term to be able to say that we are going in the right direction in developing our population so that we have positive mental health.