Thank you.
It's nice to have the officials from the department back. This is their first appearance since the November meetings.
At those meetings, I raised several questions on our side, as did Mr. Fergus and Mr. Easter, about the disability tax credit and the changes that had occurred in May that generated a whole series of rejections of applications from diabetics.
We received the department's response yesterday. It acknowledged that the clarification letter had an impact on the approval rate of diabetes-related cases, and confirmed that the minister announced they would return to the pre-May 17 clarification letter.
The minister had also said they would review the rejected applications, and these ran into the thousands. I see additional money is being requested in these estimates to deal with the debacle around Phoenix—and that's another scenario that, if we have time, I'd certainly like to get into as well. What additional resources are going to be put toward ensuring we finally deal with the Canadians who were denied the credit to which they were entitled since the clarification letter was changed in May?