Thank you, Madam Chair.
I also want to thank all of our witnesses today for shedding some light on this issue.
You described the situation here, in Ontario, but I can tell you that things are worse in Montérégie, the region where I was elected. In fact, 1 in 106 children there is said to have autism or PDD. But the figure for the rest of the country is 1 in 110. I also know that the wait time for a diagnostic assessment is 18 months, and that assessment is limited to children 0 to 5 years of age. That's a pretty small window when you consider treatment. After the age of 5, children attend regular schools like others their age, even though the schools aren't properly equipped to meet the needs of autistic students. Unfortunately, once they turn 18, they are left to their parents' devices or, without a family to care for them, they end up in a residential, long-term care centre.
Do you have an idea of where things stand in the rest of the country, as compared with my region?