I will start with one that immediately comes to my mind, because there are so many. I would say tackling mental health. Certainly, with the population we serve, which is a largely homeless population, mental health I would say is the single most significant underlying cause of their situations. I see a real paucity of provision in our province, which has some of the largest mental health challenges, I think, of any province, and certainly some of the highest suicide rates. I think if we did tackle that, we would support people to begin the journey out of poverty and into housing and into all the other things, and to sustain that journey. If you have mental health challenges it's hard to sustain that journey, because you keep going back to where you came from without the proper support.
On December 3rd, 2009. See this statement in context.