I think they're 100% right. I think we need to humanize it. I find it interesting that my friend here used the term “boots on the ground”. All that the federal government seems to have funded is administrators. Where are the boots on the ground? Where's the bias in favour of action instead of administration? Maybe we have to put aside the paperwork and apply some common sense and humanity for a change.
I think what Kenneth said was brilliant. I agree 100%. I know that it's very rare for an individual who has suicidal ideation to move it rapidly towards action, or to present themselves seeking assistance. It's even more rare for them to do it twice. When we're just administering them and taking the odd phone call, that's exactly what we're asking them to do.
I don't understand how we can have billions of dollars being, for lack of a better term, pissed away left, right and centre, but we can't throw somebody in a car and have them respond to somebody's residence when it's a life-or-death situation.