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Mental health platforms

Here's what the 2025 Canadian election parties are promising.

Liberal

  • Fund community-based mental health services and mental health care for 100,000 young people a year

    "Provide 100,000 young people a year with mental health care by establishing a permanent Youth Mental Health Fund. This fund will enhance community-based mental health services and give access to mental health care to people who otherwise would not, improving the lives of young people, and the friends and families that love them." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-22

  • Invest in deeply affordable housing, supportive housing, and shelters to address links between housing and mental health outcomes

    "Invest in deeply affordable housing, supportive housing, and shelters in recognition of the link between housing and mental health outcomes. We will do this through $6 billion invested in the new Build Canada Homes (BCH) which will build and acquire housing. This investment builds on the Rapid Housing Initiative which supported 15,000 homes for our most vulnerable, including projects like Dunn House in Toronto, Canada’s first-ever social medicine supportive housing initiative. We will continue to work with partners to deliver projects that recognize the link between housing and health outcomes." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-22

We don't have any Conservative policies on Mental health.
We don't have any Bloc policies on Mental health.

NDP

  • Cover psychotherapy and counselling for everyone not currently covered by work plans

    "As a tangible step to expanding mental health coverage, we will ensure that all Canadians can access services like psychotherapy and counselling by launching a new plan to cover these services for those who are currently not covered by work plans." — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19

  • Expand funding for crisis and addictions care

Green

  • Make mental health services fully insured under the Canada Health Act, ensuring public coverage of therapy, counselling, and psychiatric care through general provincial health transfers
  • Provide mental health and social support services within youth housing programmes

    "Provide mental health and social support services within youth housing programs, addressing the root causes of youth homelessnes." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

  • Provide a transitional Canada Mental Health Transfer to the provinces to make sure mental health funding reaches community services while provinces fully integrate mental health into Medicare

    "Establish a Canada Mental Health Transfer (CMHT) as a transitional measure, ensuring mental health funding reaches community services while provinces fully integrate mental health into Medicare. The CMHT will be phased out once full integration is achieved." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

  • Earmark 50% of all mental health funding for community-based providers

    "Earmark 50% of all mental health funding for community-based providers, ensuring stable, long-term funding for nonprofit mental health agencies, harm reduction services, and Indigenous-led programs." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

  • Launch a National Suicide Prevention Strategy, including 988 crisis services expansion and peer-based crisis response models
  • Ensure young Canadians have access to free mental health services, including counselling, peer support, and crisis intervention programmes

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