We already have a 24-7 line that the Government of Canada promotes on its website. We have a 988 line that's not in use right now but that could be used so that the 24-7 line is just readily available in people's minds. Certainly, there's work that needs to be done on the part of the stakeholders to make sure the capacity is there, but of course we have that line that exists already.
It's 465 days and 5,115 deaths at this point in time since we passed the unanimous consent motion. I'll note that in answers to questions, the first time I asked the question, on December 7, you said, “The CRTC is currently considering public input from consultations that concluded on September 1.” That wasn't actually the case, because at that point, the time frame had been extended. Your parliamentary secretary, who happens to be with us today, later pointed out, as you've just mentioned, that the time frame was extended to reopen the consultations: “the CRTC reopened the consultations to allow for new interventions in accessible formats, such as video.” That was to accommodate people with disabilities.
Now, in the last four or five years, on a repeated basis, including in two election campaigns, your party has declared that everything the government does will be undertaken through a disability lens. In fact, in the House of Commons, there was a big debate on accessibility prior to the 2019 election. I took part in that, as many of your colleagues did. That was a declaration made by your party.
We are now six months past the original September 1 deadline and still consulting, it seems, because the government didn't apply a disability lens to the suicide prevention hotline. Was that an oversight on the part of the government?