Imagine a young woman, 18, who waited many years to see a professional psychologist as her depression and anxiety disorder worsened and impeded her at school and at work. She never achieved her full potential, and her unresolved traumas will eventually affect the way she raised her children. This is not an uncommon story.
Last month’s World Happiness Report offered a striking data point – Canada’s youth ranked 71st globally on measures of mental well-being. Last year, Ontario’s Auditor-General found that more than half the province’s children and youth didn’t have access to adequate mental health care when they needed it.
So basically everything the LPC has done for the yute is just smoke and mirrors.
