Absolutely, it was me. I take responsibility for those comments.
I want to recognize that the government has actually tried to address a lot of these issues. It has these calls for funding, calls for proposals, and community agencies take those and develop programs. Sometimes they're moving from grant opportunity to grant opportunity. Certainly in my discussions with community agencies, one of the things we talk about is that Black organizations, indigenous organizations, organizations focused on people of colour that are in this space are moving from project and proposal to project and proposal while the system is being built somewhere over there.
How do we make these innovative solutions, these interventions that are working within communities, a sustained part of our mental health care system? I wonder if it's about redistributing resources, defunding in some places and moving that into places where they're actually reaching the communities we're trying to reach and thinking through the lens of equity. This is about reaching out to the communities that need it the most. We need to think differently about our resources. Is it redistribution of stuff from health, redistribution of resources that are going to public health, since there's a population health issue and also a health promotion issue? Those are my comments. I think there's a lot of innovation and exciting work happening within community-based organizations.
The other thing is that we could be thinking about making sustainable changes in the mental health care system by building a “person force” that can actually deliver these mental health care services from within the communities themselves. That requires, I guess, scholarships to get people skilled appropriately, but also recognition of other types of health care provision that are relevant to the mental health of young women and girls.