Thank you.
Thank you for coming. I appreciate you taking the time to talk about this with us. This is our first travel meeting. We've had a number of meetings in Ottawa. One of those meetings was with Mike Kirby and we talked about mental health.
I'd like to ask some of you.... Incidentally, my sister was proud to work at Phoenix Youth Programs with Tim for a number of years, and it's a wonderful program, the work you do there. I remember stories of my father working in the north end of Halifax, St. Joseph's. Back then they called it day care--and the work that Paul does up at the health centre. And thank you, Louise, for giving us some very specific recommendations. What we're trying to do is figure out what we can do. You've all talked to panels like ours before, and we want to get to the point of actually making a difference, so specific recommendations are very helpful.
I'd like to talk about young people with mental health issues or addiction issues and try to get some recommendations for a federal role, keeping in mind that both the blessing and the burden of Canada is our confederated model. You have to work federally, provincially, municipally, with civil society, with NGOs. Mike Kirby told us housing was an issue. When you talk about young people who have issues with mental health, there are diagnoses, there are drug issues, drug coverage issues, housing, social infrastructure, stigma, income support, all those different things. But what do you think the federal government could do to assist you to deal with young people who have mental health issues?
Maybe I'll start with Tim, and anybody else can slide in.