Brown’s commitment was hailed as a “potentially historic investment for the province” by Gail Czukar, chief executive of Addictions and Mental Health Ontario, representing 220 agencies across the province. The money for mental health would match a recent pledge from the federal government, with special attention to children and youth services and supports on college and university campuses. “Mental health should be treated no differently than physical health,” Brown told supporters at the Toronto Congress Centre, near Pearson airport. Taking aim at long waits for nursing homes and an approaching tsunami of seniors, Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown is promising to build new long-term-care beds faster than the Liberal government. “These pressures stem from the lack of long-term-care beds in the province, with more than 32,000 seniors on the waiting list,” the 78-page, magazine-style document adds.

Source: thestar November 25, 2017 18:53 UTC