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Attempting to understand federal funding for mental health care is a rather opaque exercise. Instead of funding a Canada Mental Health Transfer as was committed in the minister for mental health and addictions' mandate letter, the federal government negotiated 10-year bilateral deals with each province and territory last February towards meeting the mental health -care needs of Canadians.
In the end, what should have been a permanent $2.5-billion annual investment for mental health and addictions health care turned into an annual spend of $901-million. When the 2017 bilats expire in three years, that annual amount is further reduced to a mere $301-million. The government repackaged existing funding for mental health care, and did not clearly communicate how much funding was new.
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