We passed the motion back on December 11, 2020: “That, given that the alarming rate of suicide in Canada constitutes a national health crisis, the House call on the government to take immediate action, in collaboration with our provinces, to establish a national suicide prevention hotline”. It says “immediate action”. It has now been 465 days since that point in time. If we extrapolate from the numbers, that would be over 5,000 Canadian deaths by suicide since that time.
Why is it taking so long?