Thank you.
With the evidence-based prevention we have, we know what doesn't work and we know what works. We really have to look at community-based, school-based and family-based programs, programs that build skills and resilience, and also ones that help people understand and create more linkages.
Many of the communities we're talking about around the country have a lot of strength within them. It needs to be tapped into. Often it's about supporting communities to figure out what the needs in their communities are and how to answer them.
Unfortunately, every jurisdiction in this country is guilty of responding to crises with a shorter lens. We responded by trying to treat everything that was downstream. As I said, with the first crisis declared eight years ago, those kids were 12 at that time. They're now the ones who are dying.
I hope that every government in this country, municipal, provincial and federal, is able to reinvest in prevention and see that it has a role as part of that continuum and that it also in the long-term hope of solving these bigger issues.
Thank you.