Mental health afflictions are on the rise across the board, especially among the young, as the economy nosedives and hope for the younger generation looks grimmer by the day, particularly under the strain of woke governments and their mishandling of the COVID crisis, as well as their overall financial mismanagement. But Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s focus isn’t on suffering Canadians. His government only pretended to be concerned about mental health during election time.
Trudeau’s obsessions remain: mandatory vaccinations, abortion, boosting the World Economic Forum (including a $3 million gift), impressing the United Nations (to which he gave $1.6 billion in taxpayer dollars last year), and helping Ukraine at any cost. Canada forked over a $500 million loan to Ukraine “and $7.8 million worth of lethal equipment and ammunition to Ukraine,” prompting Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand to warn Canadians “that the Trudeau government has depleted its stocks of weapons in its rush to assist Ukraine.”
Meanwhile, as the Trudeau government faces increasing “criticism about the $875M in missing mental health spending,” that amount is just the tip of the iceberg. The Trudeau government’s election platform included a promise to spend a total of $4.5 billion on mental health. It turned out to be yet another election lie.
Trudeau has abandoned both those who are suffering and those trying to help them.
“Federal Liberals face criticism about $875M in missing mental health spending,” by Teresa Wright, Global News, June 21, 2022:
…It was a marquee promise of the Trudeau Liberals’ last election platform: $4.5 billion over five years for a new mental health transfer to the provinces and territories.
While on the hustings in August 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this brand new transfer was needed “because mental health should be a priority.”
But despite the sense of urgency in Trudeau’s remarks last year, no money has yet materialized for this new Canada mental health transfer, including an initial $875 million that was supposed to have been spent or budgeted by now, according to the Liberal party’s 2021 election platform….
wpm says
How many elected officials their friends and family members now have offshore accounts that help them back Trudeau .875,000,000 can buy alot of support for minister black face.I am sure it help the “mental health” of the select “friends” of Trudeau remember what they said in Devos you will own nothing and be happy about it! Maybe the missing 875000000 is in the back of Trudeau sock draw?
Rarely says
It’s not “missing” in the sense that it’s disappeared but in that it just hasn’t materialized. i.e. no one stole it.
gravenimage says
Actually, if it’s missing then by definition authorities don’t know *what* happened to it at this point. Now, Canada is not a kleptocracy, so probably most of it hasn’t been stolen outright, but it is quite possible that much of it has gone to padding pet projects of dubious or no use to the public.
Rarely says
There is no indication in the article that the money is missing but, rather, that no money has made it into the mental health program — yet. No indication whatsoever of any wrong doing except the breaking of an election promise. Politicians have turned “promise breaking” into an art.
mortimer says
Agree with GI and Rarely: the funding for mental health was probably RE-DIRECTED because the mentally ill probably don’t vote, but their family members do!
Rarely says
mortimer
The “money” doesn’t exist — until it’s borrowed. It’s all deficit financing. No indication that it was obtained (borrowed) and is hanging in limbo or was spent elsewhere.
The gov’t is spending in a way that would shame a drunken sailor and make him/her blush.
gravenimage says
Rarely, I gave the article a close read and you may be right. Thank you.
Hank says
Help for the mentally ill is greatly needed in many countries. Take a walk around Union Square, Market Street, the Financial District, Piers in San Francisco. Its sad to see. I saw some seriously mentally ill persons who needed professional help and medication in an institution. They seemed to be just roaming around, talking to an invisible being and left to themselves.
gravenimage says
Yes–some decades ago mental institutions here were largely emptied, but the promised outpatient programs pretty much failed to appear, with the predictable sad results we now see.
gravenimage says
Canada: Liberals face criticism over $875,000,000 in ‘missing mental health spending’
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Gee, why would anyone criticize that? sarc/off