Thank you for your question.
There are different dimensions to it. In terms of any kind of standard across the board, one-stop shopping, to my knowledge, does not exist anywhere. Across Canada there may be individual communities or cities that provide those kinds of services, but it is very piecemeal and ad hoc. There is no national program at this point other than, perhaps, through the federal government's information centre that's available by telephone or online.
As an aside, one of the very worrying trends we are seeing in mental health, currently, is that people who are in poverty with mental health problems and are homeless because of a lack of facilities or services in local communities are actually ending up in jail. Jails are becoming the treatment facility of choice because of the lack of any other kind of facility. That's a trend that's not well known or understood across the country, but it's happening as we speak.
Also, the part that is very worrying is that people with mental health problems who may, for whatever reason, need to be dealt with by the police, perhaps because of behavioural issues or whatever, are at that point given a criminal record. So mental health becomes a label for criminal behaviour. We come back to the issue of stigma and the label people carry with them as they go and apply for jobs, for social housing, and so on. It's a terrible barrier to their participation in society.
In terms of some of the specific things we recommend, speaking to your point, increasing the EI salary replacement ratio from 55% to 75% of average weekly earnings would be a recommendation of ours, for example. These are all in our brief. I can refer you to them.