Mental Health in Canada

Margaret Trudeau  says that prisons are not the place to house people with mental illness. The former wife of Pierre Trudeau spoke out against the Harper government's new crime bill to students at Confederation College Wednesday afternoon, saying more jails are not the answer. 

Trudeau has spent the last five years speaking on the struggles she had with depression

Trudeau also believes the government should provide more beds and not more prisons to house the mentally ill.

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