Toronto Mayor John Tory is calling for a national summit to address what he calls Canada\u0027s mental health crisis.
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The mayor has routinely linked issues of mental health support with recent random violent attacks on Toronto public transit. Police have reported three incidents on the city’s transit system in the past four days alone.Article content “It is offloaded to our shelters, to our police services, to our transit systems, and to hospital emergency departments.”
The best evidence of the ongoing mental health crisis is issues related to substance abuse, Tory said, noting the thousands of people who have died from opioid overdoses.
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