Mr. Chair, I move that Bill C-237, in clause 2, be amended by adding after line 21, on page 2, the following:
(f) ensure that the Canada Revenue Agency is administering the disability tax credit fairly and that the credit, in order to achieve its purposes, is designed to help as many persons with diabetes as possible.
Simply put, there has been an ongoing challenge for people with diabetes to qualify for the disability tax credit. A number of organizations have expressed the difficulty of that. I can attest as a parent that it was probably the third try before we were able to get it for André. I can imagine for individuals who are not as lucky as we are to be able to work for themselves and get these kinds of things done....
It's simply to try to facilitate the work and to acknowledge that there is a disability tax credit there. I think it's a very easy and calming kind of resolution, without changing the intention of the bill.