I wouldn't get very far to say we need x number more beds. I do think there is disproportionate money put into mental health as opposed to other types of health. The Mental Health Commission of Canada, I think, has been fairly clear about that. That's fairly well established.
The issue about trans-institutionalization is also pretty well accepted. That is what has occurred. What we need, I think--and the Mental Health Commission has started to look at this--is more housing for people with mental illness. We need more affordable housing for people with mental illness. You can't put treatment in place in communities unless you have proper housing. That's what we really don't have. If you don't want people to be in hospital beds, that's fine. But I can't keep people well when they're in rooming houses full of drugs or in shelters where they have to be out throughout the day. So that's probably one of the main things that could be done: housing programs specifically targeted at the mentally ill.
The other thing would be looking at funding or models that would encourage mental health practitioners, including physicians, to treat mentally ill people. There's really no incentive to try to help this population when pretty much any psychiatrist in the country could close their practice tomorrow and be living comfortably. Sorry, I'm a little blunt. You need to be creating incentives for us to work with this population other than our own values.