That's a really good and big question. I want to start by saying that I'm by no means an expert in the administration of mental health services or financing of mental health services.
To connect your question to the topic that we're addressing today, I think we want to be thoughtful of the fact that mental disorders are not a homogeneous group of people. There are subgroups. Quite often in the public and policy debate about MAID, we conflate people with severe conditions who have been ill for decades, who have had a lot of treatment and a lot of follow-up with people who can't get access to first-line resources during times of distress, times of personal difficulty or perhaps at the beginning of a condition when they're not that severely unwell.
I don't think that responds fully to what you're saying, but thinking about what's needed to fill the gaps has to think about these difference subgroups because I think their service needs are quite different. I know it's not popular to say, but I'm going to say it anyway. There are patients in Canada who get excellent care. I'm sure that Dr. Sinyor's patients at a tertiary-level centre in Toronto and Dr. Maher's patients get excellent care.
Part of the problem is homing in on where the deficiencies are and recognizing that it's probably not just a big mental health strategy with a big spend that's needed, but really targeted funding for very different kinds of services for different subgroups.