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For mental health, talk and walk are not the same thing

Now is the time for the federal government to deliver on its commitment by introducing a Canada Mental Health Transfer as part of the federal government's 2023 budget.

The Liberal government promised to create a Canada Mental Health Transfer with an initial investment of $4.5-billion over five years beginning in 2022, but the transfer was not included in Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's 2022 budget. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
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