The entire amount is slated for indigenous people. There are additional monies for non-indigenous mental health and wellness strategies.
This is an exciting time, because the work that we've been doing in partnership with community has really been through the self-determination lens. I look at programs like Choose Life, which is in my neck of the woods in northern Ontario. Indigenous communities—small communities and larger tribal council areas—were able to develop programming for young people to prevent suicide and to increase mental wellness in communities. So many people have spoken so highly about this because it's designed by indigenous people for indigenous people.
That's the intent behind mental health and wellness strategies that I will be working on with my colleague, Minister Bennett, as mandated by the Prime Minister. It is in my mandate to do this and I think it has to be through the eyes and lens of indigenous people.
As you know, MP Idlout, indigenous people are different all across the country. Many Canadians don't know that as clearly as others. I certainly think there are astounding programs and work being done, like back-to-the-land programs and culture and language programs.
We often think about mental health as treatment oriented. If you have a problem, you go to a counsellor. That's a very western idea of thinking about how to manage mental health.
It's exciting to see these models growing across the country.