Canada’s Mental Health Commission has spun off a fundraising arm, “Mental Health Partnerships of Canada”. The MHC announced recently that it had developed a “strategic alliance” between Mental Health Partnerships of Canada and the Canadian Psychiatric Research Foundation to raise money “to support the goals of the Mental Health Commission of Canada”. However, Mental Health Partnerships Canada came into existence, apparently, at the exact same time as this new alliance with the heavily-pharmaceutical-company funded CPRF, leaving CMM to wonder if MHC chair Michael Kirby and MHPC chair Michael Kirby are up to something suspicious… Why create a quasi-independent agency to handle all the fundraising for a government organization? Is Kirby trying to create a faux-distance between the Mental Health Commission tasked with leading Canada’s national mental health strategy and pharmaceutical industry money? But why would he want to do that? Better stay tuned…