I can add to that. The Canadian Perinatal Mental Health Collaborative, which some of you may be familiar with, released a report in May 2021, “Time for Action: Why Canada Needs a National Perinatal Mental Health Strategy Now More Than Ever”. It identifies that we should have universal screening, training and stepped care for perinatal mental health. I would recommend that report.
In addition, I think is also important having universal screening for gender-based violence. We don't currently have that. Again, that's where earmarked funding would make a difference. For example, on the psychiatric outreach team I was on, I did outreach into the shelters, but we did not have funding to do outreach into the violence against women shelters. That is a very important time in a woman's life to get in and to provide support. If they are at a shelter, that is a crisis situation and an opportunity for us to get them connected to the right supports and care.
One other thing I'd like to bring attention to is that the Mental Health Commission of Canada, in February 2022, released a report, “The Time is Now: Considerations for a National Psychotherapy Program”, which would also, I think, go a long way toward easing the burden of mental health care across this nation, providing access to free psychotherapy for anybody who is starting to demonstrate mental health concerns.