https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/time-to-bolster-canadas-chronically-under-funded-mental-health-system-advocates/article31586540/

"Canada trails the pack when it comes to mental health funding levels among comparable industrially developed nations -".......".“Access to care is abysmal in most places throughout the country and of course that’s linked ... not only, but very much to funding,” said Louise Bradley, executive director of the Mental Health Commission of Canada, in a recent interview.""

The lack of services may seem worse and receive more publicity because its absence manifests itself as suicides on the northern reserves, but people across Canada are quietly suffering in other ways from untreated mental illness.

Besides the personal toll of misery and suffering, this lack of funding for mental health care  affects all of society, as it prevents a large number of people from living up to their full potential as contributing members of society.