Finance committee  I would say it's common knowledge that medical technology improves over time. Certainly the people who are administering the disability tax credit have that awareness, including the nurse practitioners who are there. Certainly, they're aware. You have things like wireless insuli

Finance committee  That are a lot of different questions in there. The applicant brings the application to the medical practitioner, and the medical practitioner provides this information.

Finance committee  Usually the individual gives the application to the doctor, who fills it out right on the spot, and it's usually the individual who then mails it back to us.

Finance committee  Well, we look at each one on a case-by-case basis. If a doctor simply says it takes 14 hours, that's not going to be sufficient information.

Finance committee  It's never been sufficient. In most cases, we would want a listing of what takes 14 hours. I'm not going to say we do that in each and every case, because sometimes there are complicating factors, or there are other interactions with other medical complications that makes it so o

Finance committee  You're absolutely right that the legislation hasn't changed. The folio, which is the interpretation of the legislation, hasn't changed for years with respect to life-sustaining therapies. The criterion has always been 14 hours, so that part has remained identical. Over time, th

Finance committee  A range of changes have been made in the administration, but the 14-hour threshold in the criteria has not changed, and neither have the activities that are considered eligible and the activities that aren't. For example, physical activity and calorie-counting are not considered

Finance committee  The communications with the medical community do change from time to time, absolutely, in all programs to try to administer the program as closely as possible to, in our case, the Income Tax Act—

Finance committee  Could I see it? Is it a letter to an individual?

Finance committee  What was the question?

Finance committee  This is a letter that refers to the assessment of the fact that in cases of well-managed diabetes, it doesn't take 14 hours of eligible activities to do the therapy.

Finance committee  I don't have the form in front of me, but I guess you're asking me about this letter and you're asking me if I believe that—

Finance committee  When this controversy started, I think about a month ago or something—

Finance committee  Yes. I think in terms of when—

Finance committee  —it became a public issue, there was a short period of time in which we closely looked at some of the existing files to see whether there was something we were not processing properly, so for a short period of time we did stop processing, but that processing has started again.