Question Period Note: Federal Funding for Mental Health and Substance Use (MHSU)

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We know our response to mental health is stronger when provided as part of integrated care.
o We are transferring billions of dollars to provinces and territories to support health care, including mental health care, over the coming years, through both an increase of the Canada Health Transfer, and the new ten-year bilateral agreements – that’s an additional $25 billion.
o Approximately one third of federal funding flowed through the bilateral agreements for improving health care will be allocated by provinces and territories for mental health and substance use services (note: the funding breakdown is not available for Quebec).
• Improved access to mental health and substance use services is one of the four shared priorities in the new bilateral agreements and integrated into the other three.
If Pressed on Mental Health Transfer (refer to Bilateral Funding to PTs)
• The 2017 investment in mental health and addictions to provinces and territories have supported the expansion of initiatives such as integrated youth services making them more accessible and cost-effective.
• We want to extend this collaborative work with transparency and accountability in order to provide integrated mental health across all of our shared priorities with provinces and territories.

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