Cariboo-Prince George MP says federal budget is out of touch with the mental health crisis
While Canada’s three-digit national suicide prevention hotline is only months away, Cariboo-Prince George MP Todd Doherty wants to make sure there’s substance behind it.
Cariboo-Prince George MP Todd Doherty, whose motion to create 988 was passed in the House of Commons back in 2020, says it’s bittersweet because while the federal budget supports implementation of the hotline, it lacks broader mental health funding. Doherty said he wants to see funds going to local crisis lines like the Northern B.C. Crisis Line in Prince George, who will be essentially manning 988 to make sure they have enough resources.He also agreed with the Canadian Mental Health Association , which said the budget is out of touch with the mental health crisis and failed to deliver on a 2021 Liberal promise to develop a permanently funded $4.
“We just create so much hope and then we fall short all the time, and we continue to have people that fall through the cracks,” said Doherty. “I just want to make sure that it's not just there for window dressing and that there's actual substance behind it.”
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