On the disability tax credit, I have many constituents who have conditions. When their physician fills out the paperwork saying that they have the condition, they qualify for the disability tax credit and other programs—not because of the amount of hours they spend each week dealing with it, but simply because they have the condition. It strikes me that this is how we should be treating diabetes.
If you have type 1 or type 2 diabetes, just on its own, leaving aside the stigma of the word “disability”, the point is, should there be some sort of tax relief issued to recognize the extra burdens or barriers of dealing with this simply because you have the condition, as opposed to trying to measure how many arbitrary minutes or hours a day you deal with it? Would that not be a wiser policy approach to this?