Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
As already discussed, the mental health of Canadians definitely has been adversely impacted by the strain of the pandemic.
Health Canada is providing core funding to the Mental Health Commission of Canada to establish national standards for the mental health of post-secondary students.
In budget 2021, we also provided $100 million over three years to address the mental health impacts of the pandemic, particularly on vulnerable groups, including youth.
We've provided additional resources for Kids Help Phone, a crisis line that our Public Health Agency colleagues can comment on further, which provides additional support to children in crisis.
We have also provided funding for a campus peer support program at post-secondary institutions, to provide direct peer support to students in need.
We have held extensive consultations with universities and colleges this year and are working with different youth groups, including through integrated youth services and organizations such as the Foundry, to talk about the full suite of wraparound supports. It's not just mental health services and counselling that are required, but a full suite of supports in areas such as housing and other social supports for students in crisis.
The needs vary across the country, so it's a comprehensive approach that we've been taking, and this is definitely one of our top priorities in the transfers that we provided to the provinces. In their agreements, they've all committed to invest in integrated youth services as a matter of one of the three priorities for those transfers, and we're midway through that 10-year transfer process.