Mr. Speaker, my colleague from Whitby is right. We obviously are mindful of the physical impact of COVID-19 in Canada and the fact that almost 30,000 people in Canada died of COVID-19.
If I may open a brief parentheses, I mentioned earlier the fact that comparatively speaking we have done quite well. If we would have had the same rate of deaths as we observed south of the border, we would have ended up in Canada with 60,000 more deaths. Thirty thousand is many people, but we would have ended up with 90,000 people dying of COVID if we had followed the pace and the rate we saw south of the border.
This was obviously a big impact on physical health, but also a big impact on mental health. The member is correct. We will need to invest resources, time and care looking after the people of Canada, those who have suffered mentally.
I think in particular of younger Canadians such as children, students and families. I know for children and students it has been a very hard time mentally speaking as well, so we will need to work together to repair the damage and to build for the future.