This government has certainly provided more funding for access to mental health care. I think Correctional Service Canada is still catching up, because the numbers are growing and very significant. I will tell you that my greatest worries are for those small numbers of inmates who are acutely ill or suicidal or chronically self-harming in a serious way. Those are the ones I would like to see moved to external psychiatric secure facilities. Our best estimate would be that there would be about a dozen women who would meet the criteria and about two dozen men who would also meet that definition. They have no place in a correctional facility. They are patients first.
On February 25th, 2020. See this statement in context.