Health committee  It's very sad and heartbreaking. As an individual, when we talk about mental illness, that aspect for us—for me—has been tremendous, knowing that at one time I had all these resources at the tip of my fingers. I know the system better than most, because I deal with it in my m

Health committee  Thank you for the question. Our community association, like others, as was just commented on, has suffered greatly due to COVID. Most community associations are not-for-profit organizations. We had done very well, up until COVID. Since COVID, it has been very difficult to run a

Health committee  We ran these three programs for 20 years and helped thousands of people. Unfortunately, government has cut funding to our loan parent, parent link and north central programs. Because the government cut funding, people are coming to us and asking, “Where do we go?”. We send them

Health committee  They do not. It's very frustrating because we help thousands of people, and because of provincial cuts, the provincial government is saying, “Hey, look at us, we've saved all this money.” The government is not giving the proper resources to this demographic at all.

Health committee  Thank you very much for having me today. I'm here representing four different organizations. I'm the general manager of Huntington Hills Community Association. I'm president and founder of Minds Over Matter mental health society. I am founder of Open Arms patient advocacy socie