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Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor

My mental-health journey: from sister to social worker to minister

In the past 30 years, Canada has gone from the federal health minister thinking mental health wasn’t his problem to the health minister being a former mental health counsellor, writes Ginette Petitpas Taylor, the latter. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
In the past 30 years, Canada has gone from the federal health minister thinking mental health wasn’t his problem to the health minister being a former mental health counsellor, writes Ginette Petitpas Taylor, the latter. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
More than 2,800 Canadians died last year as a result of an overdose on opioids such as fentanyl, writes Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor. Photograph courtesy of Dennis Yip
More than 2,800 Canadians died last year as a result of an overdose on opioids such as fentanyl, writes Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor. Photograph courtesy of Dennis Yip