On behalf of the Mental Health Commission of Canada, we are extremely pleased to present this document to everyone across the country who has been directly or indirectly touched by a mental health problem or illness, and to everyone concerned with mental health issues. We believe that this in fact describes just about every single person living in Canada. It has often been – rightly – said that there is no health without mental health. For far too long, this simple truth has been obscured by the lack of public discussion of mental health issues. Despite important progress in recent years,.