Thank you.
Here in Ottawa, people want there to be conditions attached to health transfers, but what's funny is that there are so many needs all over, that the groups all come, one after another, asking for health transfers that are unique to their own fields. My conclusion is that there is a funding shortfall in general.
Because distinctive features would be needed everywhere, they would not be needed anywhere, in fact. This is particularly true for mental health, which is obviously not under federal jurisdiction, but nonetheless there is a Minister of Health in Ottawa.
If there were better funding for healthcare, stable, predictable, unconditional funding, would we have been able to do more mental health prevention with children in the last few years? What effect would that prevention have today, or what effect would it have had during the pandemic?