Ontario Premier Doug Ford promised to look into the issue of people turned away from MindBeacon, a free virtual therapy service that recently received millions in provincial funding.

The survey from the Ontario division of the Canadian Mental Health Association is the first in a series of three questionnaires meant to gauge the impact the outbreak and its various ripple effects will have on the way Ontario residents feel and behave.

"I'm over virtual hangouts and I want human interaction."

The expansion is a part of the $12 million the provincial government previously announced toward mental health services.

"We also know that mental and physical strain that our frontline workers and our first responders are facing," Ford continued. "They're working long hours, they see tragedy every single day, they're making really really tough decisions.

The Garry Hurvitz Brain Sciences Centre will be built at Sunnybrook Health Science Centre in Toronto.

Attorney General Caroline Mulroney says the current system is fragmented and confusing for patients and their families.

The analysis, conducted by researchers at the University of Toronto's Canadian Centre for Health Economics, springs from work done by CMHO in 2017 that showed that one in four parents in the province reported missing work to care for a child with anxiety issues.

The announcement came after Premier Doug Ford met with Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders, Mayor John Tory and Bill Blair, the federal minister of border security and organized crime reduction, to discuss gun violence in the wake of a fatal shooting spree in the city over the weekend.

Ontario is earmarking $140 million over three years for mental health and addictions services, including investments in psychotherapy and supportive housing.