I'm a physician, a child psychiatrist. It's fortunate, in a way, that this hearing is in early May because it's easy for my secretary to check that I filled out 36 DTC forms in April. Perhaps Dr. Cohen and I are not unbiased witnesses, because, like Dr. Cohen, I sat on the Technical Advisory Committee on Tax Measures for Persons with Disabilities and worked on the improvement of the form.
Physicians fill out a lot of these forms every year. I'm not saying they're not complex. I'm sure when you're starting a practice and you haven't filled out the form, it's complex to start. But I feel the changes that were made to the form made it much more straightforward to complete. That was what we worked for. The complexities are in understanding the conditions, and we can work with CRA. I wanted to make that point.
I am a physician who spends all my time working in mental health. There is a stigma associated with mental health that all physicians are aware of. For that reason, the privacy piece is particularly important.