Thank you for the question.
I have to say that I have learned a great deal from Dr. Vigod. Women's College Hospital is the reason I accidentally ended up in politics, trying to save that place and its independence. Dr. Vigod was really instrumental in this movement around perinatal mental health, as well as the collaborative....
On March 9, we did a round table with Dr. Vigod. I think we really felt by the end of the round table that this could very easily be an area where there could be national standards very quickly, as to what any woman should be able to expect, wherever she lives.
I think the idea is that the clusters of expertise in perinatal mental health are not properly spread out across the country. It is going to be important that the stepped-care model means that if women are very sick and unwell then they get the best possible perinatal mental health supports, wherever they live.
It speaks to what I was saying to one of your colleagues from Quebec. It means that we also have to make sure that the mom in Moncton or Sudbury can get the best care in French, if that's the way it should be.
It means that we have this opportunity with virtual care and expertise. We can really build out a system where moms are followed properly. Again, the attachment problems and all of the things that you've described, Emmanuella, are hugely important. No mom should fall through the cracks because she wasn't asked how she was doing or because we didn't really understand the depth of her despair or psychosis.