I like the author's suggestion of peer specialist. The peer specialist idea should be the future of mental health profession. But it will be difficult to implement actual paid positions (independent of psychiatric industry) in the mental health field due to resistance by the authorities who spout clinical narratives (i.e lies), which is why Canada needs to invest in counter-narratives like critical psychology and history of medicine to expose those lies. Also, I find lay people have internalized biases towards the mentally ill and accept the pessimist outlook to recovery as it is told by the psychiatric industry. It is as toxic as internalized misogyny and internalized colonialism. Peer specialists can actually be more effective than people holding formal credentials. Therapeutic wisdom is more than book learning. Some of the historically successful asylums (an asylum that was run by the York Quaker which had 75% recovery rate for the acutes) were staffed by non-medical people.