Finance committee  Yes. We're seeing that for sure. People have more complex issues, and substance use is certainly one of those factors. It's becoming more prevalent in the people who present to us. We have services that offer.... I'm not sure if you're aware of the housing first model—

Finance committee  —but we have funding that we receive for it, which, to my knowledge, is ending in March 2024, so I'll just put in a little plug there for whatever that looks like.

Finance committee  I'm not a hundred per cent on the exact dollars. I believe that we may have received some of that here in P.E.I. I'm not sure in terms of other jurisdictions, but I believe some of those dollars have flowed our way. I think you went back to the piece around treatment. Certainly,

Finance committee  Certainly there's community-based mental health care provided by NGOs or charities such as ours. Some of our areas do clinical work. We don't do clinical here in P.E.I., but there's also providing the support to leverage that. As I said, sending people to emerg or to their GP is

Finance committee  Absolutely. I'll speak to the end part first, where you were talking about beds. Are you talking about actual treatment or housing?

Finance committee  Yes. Just for a bit of context for here in P.E.I., the Canadian Mental Health Association was established in 1959, and we've been offering services since then. Specifically, our services expanded in 1989, about 34 years ago, with the expansion of housing and psychosocial rehabil

Finance committee  It's very important. Nationally, our organization has certainly put forward that our medicare system needs to include the pieces for mental health so that there's access to that for counselling and social services. Those may be accessible for people who have access to a health ca

Finance committee  As a charity, which we are, in the non-profit world, employees don't come to work in a charity or work in the non-profit world for the money. That's pretty obvious. They do it because they care, they're passionate and they want to help people. At the same time, there's the expect

Finance committee  Yes. That's here in P.E.I.

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  Yes, I'm familiar with it. In terms of the direct impact here for us, I can say that in the budget for 2021-22, we actually received some additional funding for expanding our core services. We were able to add peer support in our core funding. We were able to expand the existing

Finance committee  No, it's for our own staff in terms of recruitment and retention. Our staff was significantly under-resourced in comparison with the staff providing some similar services in the province.

Finance committee  I can't speak to that exactly. I know that our current contract takes us to the end of March 2025, so if there were additional.... That was from—

Finance committee  Yes, exactly. Thank you.

Finance committee  I can speak to the fact that the Department of Health now has a dedicated mental health and addictions deputy minister and area. That's another area—