Ms. Spoelstra, grandparents in my riding have a grandchild in the Niagara region. I want to run through their scenario briefly and explain if that is in fact the situation, and how we could improve the timeframe.
They knew their grandson, at 12 months, had a problem. It took 16 months for him to be diagnosed as severely autistic. They want their grandson and their son to be in the intensive behavioural intervention program; they've been told it takes three to five years to receive that treatment. They are number 750 on the list, so if that's the present-day scenario in Ontario, obviously that's unacceptable.
What can we do to get that number down to what is realistic? What else can we do? I'm sure there are hundreds of families in Ontario in the same situation.