Thank you very much for participating in what I think could be a very important study, with all our members of Parliament trying to deal with some of these issues. I hope we will see you again as more evidence comes forward.
Certainly, the issue of suicide is very complicated, but in some ways it's also very simple, in that the agencies, the adults, the institutions whose job it is to protect children are failing them. That's what we need to look at.
I bring forward the case of 14-year-old Azraya Kokopenace, who died a horrific death in Lake of the Woods. She was involved with child welfare. She was involved with police. She was brought to a hospital, walked out of that hospital in the middle of the night, and her body was found two days later. The family is asking for an inquest. I don't want to deal with the individual case, but what was raised in that tragedy was that she tried to get mental health services and mental health services were not available. In fact, in Queen's Park today, in calling for the inquest, MPP Sarah Campbell said, “To be clear, these services don't exist.”
Do you keep records, statistics, of the number of requests for mental health services for youth at risk? Do you keep records of how many are denied? Do you have records of what the delay rate for treatment is?