I'm not a mental health practitioner, but we do know that children and youth have struggled in academic environments. Being in and out of school over the course of the pandemic has likely served to stress a particular population of children who weren't thriving in the at-home environment. There are lots of risk factors at home for some of those children as well.
Otherwise, the support and community based services—which are either preventative or early intervention services—largely aren't available or accessible. The two-and-a-half year wait is a very long time to wait for a child or youth and their family when they're suffering from mental health concerns.
I would also say, to Dr. Feldman's point earlier, that the opportunity to train our general practitioners, pediatricians and some of those frontline health care providers to earlier identify concerns and diagnose and refer is a great place to start. We also need to think about how we deliver access to children who are rural, remote, indigenous, new Canadians or not English first, etc.