This is a recommendation that I highlighted in our Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine brief about expanding and re-establishing a task force to work on mental health and substance use health, specifically around addressing some of the expert advice and developing a framework that establishes expectations around the availability of evidence-based care.
You can look at it through a provincial lens. The people who live near my rapid access to addiction medicine clinics in Winnipeg have vastly different access to evidence-based treatment than people who live in Red Sucker Lake, Manitoba, or in any of our fly-in, remote communities that have very little access to care.
The same thing is true if you look across different provinces and different jurisdictions. There needs to be some expectation of availability of service for all Canadians, regardless of where they live.