The report spoke to a robust community mental health and addiction care sector where we provide early, easy access to Canadians. We support access, and we support navigation and referral that is integrated with our other health care partners.
We have to look at this in terms of a robust child mental health care sector where we're looking at families and early intervention. Most mental illness issues commence at the ages of 12 to 17. We have to invest a lot more services in youth, and it has been youth who have been overly impacted by the pandemic with their schooling. We really feel there's a need to invest in young people, particularly youth, to work with our school partners and to work in collaboration with all of the services that surround youth.
We also have to look at seniors' mental health and deal with loneliness and isolation issues because, again, chronic loneliness is one of the major factors that affects overall health costs and well-being for each individual. I'm happy to share the report with this committee post this meeting. I will send it in for your reference.
Thank you.