A holding pattern for mental health: what are we waiting for?

Canada is entering an era of national childcare, dental, and pharmacare. But where is mental health?

Federal transfers to provinces and territories for mental health and addictions are inadequate, representing only seven per cent of overall healthcare budgets, writes Margaret Eaton, the national CEO of the Canadian Mental Health Association.Photograph courtesy of Pexels

Opinion

BY Margaret Eaton

April 25, 2022

Budgets 2021 and 2022 made great strides in filling the gaps in our universal health-care system and recognizing the social determinants of health. We are now entering an era of national childcare, dental, and pharmacare. Those programs, along with investments in housing, will reduce health and soci...

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