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It'd be amusing if he were to be detained under the Mental Health Act. Actually, it'd be fuckin' hilarious. BC has VERY loose regs re MHA detentions, and he's a prime candidate of a possible personality disorder.
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Loose regs but no free beds in psych, ever, EVER. You can show up to the hospital with the rope still attached and it still wait two weeks to get inpatient treatment. The best you could hope is he'd be boarded in Emerg until he leaves the hospital AMA.
Not everyone who is certified under the Mental Health Act is an inpatient though; they can be certified but out on extended leave, meaning they have to report in at designated times for appointments and administration of medications.
With that said, personality disorders are notoriously difficult to treat and medications don't cut it. The criteria for certification requires the treatment to actually serve some purpose, so it's way more often applied to people with schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders that actually can be (relatively) effectively treated by medications. That and the treatment needs to be required to protect the patient or others, or to prevent the patient's deterioration. And again on that point, the deterioration element applies more to psychotic disorders where the patients' baseline is lowered every time they have a psychotic episode. Someone with a personality disorder who isn't actually hurting themselves or others wouldn't meet the criteria.
Yes, he's being a complete nuisance and wasting a lot of public resources, and yes, BC's Mental Health Act certification criteria is quite broad (much moreso than the American libertarian "dangerousness" approach, which has been explicitly rejected by courts here), but it's still not intended as a means to address nuisance or criminal issues. Yaniv still doesn't cut even what you correctly describe as "loose" regs. People can be complete assholes and make poor life decisions without being certifiable.
The fact that his "suicide" attempts are so obviously malingering and attention seeking and not a legitimate threat to him actually makes him less likely to be certified rather than more, as well (and I sort of doubt he's reporting the same suicide ideation/attempts to medical staff that he's tweeting and posting about online).