Embedding mental health care into primary care is an economic imperative

By scaling existing models for integrated mental health care, Canada can improve patient outcomes while driving economic growth.

Canada needs a national primary care strategy so that all federal, provincial, and territorial governments are on the same page and not running their own separate experiments when it comes to mental health services, write doctors Lesley Lutes and Sabrina Wong.Photograph courtesy of Pexels

Opinion

BY LESLEY LUTES, SABRINA WONG

October 12, 2026

When Prime Minister Mark Carney pitched Canada as a great place to invest at the recent Canada Investment Summit, he overlooked what could become one of our strongest assets: a healthy, productive population supported by a health-care system equipped for today’s challenges...

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