Minister, if you look at the comparable amount of money the government spent per capita on SARS and COVID-19, and the deaths, it's not even comparable.
Your party promised, in its 2021 platform, to spend $4.5 billion over five years on a new mental health transfer, in order to expand services and address backlogs. It also promised to fund the three-digit suicide prevention hotline. In 2019, the House unanimously supported a national suicide prevention plan as well. However, none of these initiatives received any funding in this year's budget. When can Canadians expect to see action on these?
I see I'm running out of time.
Can you provide to this committee, in writing...when that's going to happen, and whom you're consulting on the Canada mental health transfer?