I obviously disagree with the characterization that you have given of the bill we're going to discuss, Bill C-7, in the sense that it was always going to be the case that we were going to look carefully at the question of mental illness. That was always planned for a larger parliamentary review, and that is still the case.
We have a better understanding of mental illness. We certainly have a long way to go, but we were always going to be looking at that, and there was a great deal of pressure from people within both the medical community and the legal community to make sure that mental illness was to be looked at seriously, and we're going to do that. I disagree with the characterization that we're doing something completely new here.
The rest of the question is premature because we haven't seen where this is going to land. We will know that only after parliamentarians have studied it carefully in the next couple of years.
I can say that our government has taken on a very proactive approach towards mental health. We've invested $10 billion across Canada—new money, since coming into government—precisely for mental health, and the provinces agreed to make sure that the money we put forward for mental health was spent on mental health. We'll continue to do that. As a society we are understanding better the challenges of mental health, and as a government we're committed to supporting that understanding in that study and to implementing programming that will be supportive of that.