I think you're right on all those points. For example, in Alberta we have 24 diagnostic clinics. Most of them are funded through the province. The individuals who are seeking assessment do not have to pay. It's covered through our health services. There are a few private centres where you would have to pay privately.
For the current assessment centre that is within one of our youth correction centres, the funding is shared between Health and Justice—they split costs—and so the individual doesn't pay. We do not have as many physicians who have spent their life career, as I have, in this disability. I am an academic professor at the University of Alberta and I'm training, trying to get the next generation in place. With good clear guidelines, which we currently have, through training and mentoring we should be able to produce the next cohort of physicians who could be part of the team. It's a multidisciplinary team, so we need to have the same rigour of training within psychology, the training of speech or language pathologists, occupational therapists, or social workers.
I can speak for the University of Alberta; this has become a huge focus of our work. Across Canada we are fortunate. In the west to have more clinics than the east. We are mentoring more and more clinics as they show interest in being established in the eastern provinces.