For mental health, talk and walk are not the same thing

Now is the time for the federal government to deliver on its commitment by introducing a Canada Mental Health Transfer as part of the federal government's 2023 budget.

The Liberal government promised to create a Canada Mental Health Transfer with an initial investment of $4.5-billion over five years beginning in 2022, but the transfer was not included in Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's 2022 budget.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY KIM HOLLIHAN, ELLEN COHEN, AND GLENN BRIMACOMBE

October 3, 2022

In politics, those who seek our vote talk a lot about what they will do if elected or point to what they have accomplished in terms of getting things done. Both are important as one speaks to the talk of tomorrow, and the other to the walk of yesterday. In the lead up to and since the 2021 federal ...

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