Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Right away I want to acknowledge my colleague's early intervention about the event that happened yesterday and thank him. I also thank you for the moment of silence.
Welcome to all of the witnesses today.
This is a very important topic. It's very important to me as the founder of the all-parliamentary mental health caucus. I am very much invested in this.
I'm going to start with Ms. Foster.
In your opening remarks, you talked about demand outweighing capacity. Naturally, when we look at the study that we are doing, the demand that we are focusing on is children, especially children at the early stages, and the capacity is now where I want to focus. Often when I talk to different professional service providers, especially on mental health and mental wellness, what they're talking about.... If we look at capacity in a much broader sense rather than just the psychotherapist or the counselling therapist and include intervention at the early stages, then we may not be in as bad a situation as we are.
I would like to know your point of view on that.