Following on that, Chief Pratt, I worked for quite a few years as a doctor, including a couple of years in Norway House. I totally agree with you that the European health care system has totally failed in mental health and addiction. The implementation or the approach really has not worked well in indigenous communities.
I'd also suggest that our present system isn't very cost-efficient. When you have to fly somebody out of the community after they've overdosed, you have to pay $30,000 or something. That $30,000 would be much better spent on providing the services in the communities.
I agree with you that we should be doing way more in terms of funding indigenous healers within the communities. These are people who are far more likely to be successful than people with a purely western, European approach to mental health problems.
Are we doing enough in terms of mental health services in the communities? It sounds like you're from an area where there are a lot of isolated communities. Do most of those isolated communities have any mental health services on an ongoing basis, especially with a traditional component?