I would see the national quality standards as setting the stage for the stepped care models. Quality standards across the care spectrum from detection through treatment could set standards for access, wait times and things like that. Once we have those quality standards in place, they could be used to identify human resource needs. They could be used to guide the coordination of different organizations that are already helping.
I sounded arrogant and obnoxious as a doctor there for a second when I said that we have lots of expertise. We have fantastic expertise and supports in community organizations around the country, but one of the struggles we have is the coordination of them. There are so many people doing so much good work, like peer organizations and community organizations. I think quality standards would set the stage for us to identify what we need and who we could coordinate with.
Those things would feed into those stepped care models and inform them so that we could decide which low-intensity treatments are the best that we can do in Canada at the present time. It would help us decide what determines whether people move up or down to lower-intensity or higher-intensity treatments.