Thank you very much for the questions.
Speaking on behalf of the Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health, CAMIMH has been very supportive of the #308conversations. I think that any movement in the sense of educating people about mental illness and mental health is useful, because we all need to be educated a little bit about that. Raising the level of understanding across the country and raising the level of understanding for our elected officials and bringing that to the community level, I think, is making a huge impact.
As well, I don't know and can't speak specifically to the community-based suicide prevention. But I know that, with regard to the Mental Health Commission of Canada's rolling out of national programs and national standards and looking to put those into an action plan, we're very supportive of that moving forward.
What we're discovering on the local level that as mental health has become something that we can talk about openly and can disclose in the workplace, there aren't the repercussions that there were 20 or even 10 years ago. However, sometimes there are barriers to accessing services on a local level when somebody discloses or feels he or she is in an environment, such as one with something like a #308conversation, where they can open up.
So, from a Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health perspective, it's about moving that to action, taking a national plan, and taking that national plan and applying funds, so that across the country we can apply those performance indicators for the best practices, lift the best practices from communities, and ensure that there is access across Canada. I think that's really the next stage for the Mental Health Commission of Canada.