Missing: a child and youth mental health strategy at provincial and national levels

Canada currently spends too little on mental health compared to other developed countries. The Mental Health Commission of Canada recommends that nine percent of health budgets should go to improving mental health services.
Canada's Minister of Health, Jane Philpott, has been an outspoken advocate of boosting investment into mental health services.

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