I think it's broader than that. I think there's a lot of inequity in health care; there's a lot of poverty; there's racism that leads to violence in our community at large. A lot of the conversation here is focused on what you can do in the hospital setting. I'm not a Liberal, but the liberal part of my soul would ask these questions. What are we doing upstream to deal with access for the untreated schizophrenic who can't access mental health services in a rural community? What are we doing for the people who have substance abuse issues, who can't access appropriate programs to manage their substance abuse? What are we doing to deal with the disenfranchised somebody in the inner city core? Those things need to be addressed or violence will not go away.
On May 14th, 2019. See this statement in context.