Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today.
I am pleased that I was invited to join this discussion even though I don’t bring the kind of expertise to the table as do your overseas guests.
To be frank it was my interest in hearing what they had to say that led me to accept the invitation.
Nonetheless, it is important in any discussion about a city’s mental health and wellbeing that we look to cities that have experienced trauma – one, to understand what has helped those cities recover, but, two and more importantly, to learn the lessons of that experience – we learn as much from what we got wrong as what we got right.