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Decentralized Democracy

Ontario Assembly

43rd Parl. 1st Sess.
May 16, 2023 09:00AM
  • May/16/23 11:30:00 a.m.

Thank you for that question.

Quite the opposite: Our government has been doing a great deal to support all Ontarians with respect to their mental health and addictions, with the Roadmap to Wellness and investments of $525 million on an annualized basis—the $3.8 billion. The $90 million that went specifically to the Addictions Recovery Fund—those beds are focused, 54% of them, in northern Ontario. That has created 7,000 treatment spots. We are catching up and doing the work that wasn’t done by the previous government, supported by the NDP.

And those investments in Sudbury, for instance—over $12 million towards building a continuum of care. That includes over $2 million in annual, new funding specifically for children and youth. We’re investing not only in building a continuum of care, but in prevention and building resiliency in children as well.

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