The Editor:
My fundamental question: Are mental-health services equally available across the country?
Ontario
has the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Its apparent equivalent here,
the BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services, struggles for name recognition
both within the province and nationally (I hadn’t heard of it until recently).
Will
a person with an “irremediable” mental illness in Saskatchewan or Prince Edward
Island find the same psychiatric resources as someone located in, say,
Hamilton, a major university city? Why seek an escape clause for mental illness
without thinking in the first place of the vast disparity in the quality of
services (not) at the disposal of people? Will there be more “irremediable”
cases in have-not provinces?
Mental-health
resources, it seems, are far from fair across the country. So why then talk
about medical assistance in dying?
Joerge Dyrkton Anmore, B.C.
Published in The Globe and Mail, Tuesday February
6, 2024
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