Closing the mental health gap: expanding coverage as next step toward mental health parity

Despite recent gains from the government, mental health parity remains an elusive target, not helped by the transfer system's scattershot approach.

Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott speaks in Ottawa in February 2018, as an Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership candidate. Ontario signed a bilateral agreement with the federal government for health transfer money in 2017. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY HOWARD CHODOS, MARY BARTRAM

April 29, 2019

For decades, governments have seriously underfunded mental health, falling far short of the ideal of parity of mental health with physical health. With its 10-year $5-billion mental health transfer, the federal government should be congratulated for taking a significant bite out of the mental-health...

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