Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to begin by thanking the witnesses for their testimony and for their work in this very important area.
I'd like to direct my questions to Dr. Lipman. In your testimony, at least five of your recommendations, and arguably six, have to do with access and early intervention, so I'd like to focus on that.
My experience with youth as a counsellor, over 20 years as a chaplain, was that it was very hard to access mental health services. In your practical experience in this area, are youth who are in need of mental health services getting those services? Maybe you could talk about wait times and what the problem is with respect to early intervention and early access.