Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's freshly appointed cabinet includes a new ministerial post to tackle his election promises on mental health and addictions.
Carolyn Bennett, who served recently as minister of Crown-Indigenous relations, has been tapped for the mental health and addictions portfolio.
Advocates for mental health, including the Canadian Mental Health Association, applauded the added focus in cabinet on improving mental-health care in Canada. Trudeau vowed to review access to the disability tax credit, as well as other federal benefits and programs, to ensure mental health challenges are among the qualifications. He also promised to include mental health as a specific element of occupational health and safety under the Canada Labour Code.
Prior to her election in 1997, Bennett, who will also serve as associate minister of health, was a family physician and assistant professor in the department of family and community medicine at the University of Toronto. As Canada moves into the next phase of pandemic recovery, the federal government will have to work closely with premiers to come to a new agreement on health-care transfers.
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