Finance committee  Thank you very much for the opportunity to present today. JDRF is the leading charitable funder of research to cure and prevent type 1 diabetes. I am joined today by Angie Sullivan, who is a mother of a child with type 1 diabetes. Until 1921, when Canadians Sir Frederick Banti

Finance committee  I'll work with our colleagues at Diabetes Canada on the Diabetes 360°. They've been the leads on that and we've been working collaboratively with them. Yes, to my mind the fix on the DTC would solve the RDSP problem. In fact, in the previous budget the RDSP clawback was removed.

Finance committee  Actually, if they enacted that people who require insulin, which is a life-sustaining therapy, qualified for the disability tax credit, there should be no question. The nurse practitioners or the doctors.... For type 1 diabetics, it should actually be a very simple process. That'

Finance committee  What's interesting is that you can file your own taxes and you don't have to validate your taxes, but in this case you have to get somebody to validate that you have type 1 diabetes in order to complete your application. In many ways, you could simplify the application process. B

Finance committee  You know what? That's a good question. I'm not 100% sure because I think it would vary by different condition. I'm sorry. I just don't know how it breaks down within the CRA application.

Finance committee  Thank you for that opportunity. I would say that Canada has hit significantly above its weight in diabetes. We've discovered insulin and stem cells. We've developed what is called the Edmonton protocol. A group of researchers transplanted islet cells and gave people a new source

Finance committee  There you go.

Finance committee  We have a very strong partnership with CIHR. We are co-funding research right now, a lot of research with them, and we see more opportunities to do more together. I view them as a tremendous partner.

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and members of the committee. I'm joined today by Juliette Benoît, a JDRF youth advocate who joins us from L'Assomption, Quebec, and will speak to the lived experience of type 1 diabetes. Just as background, Juliette was one of our two youth co-chairs duri

Health committee  Thank you, Juliette, for sharing your personal and powerful story. As Juliette has made clear, diabetes is a relentless, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year disease. Passing this bill will create a framework for a national diabetes strategy leading to tangible int

Health committee  I don't want to repeat what Kim said, but I think what we recognize is that the need for good data is critical to turning the ship around. This is the way I would look at it. A simple example is that if we don't know who has type 1 and type 2—and some of our provincial and terr

Health committee  I was just going to make one point. I think we have a very unique opportunity with diabetes, because there are devices such as continuous glucose monitors and pumps that can feed data to the clinician. We've talked a lot about virtual care during COVID. That's one big opportuni

Health committee  There's no doubt that everybody should have exactly what they need to manage their disease. I would then say we need to do more research to find the next level of treatments in essence to cure this disease. There are a lot of people who need better care right now.

Finance committee  Good afternoon. Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today. My name is Dave Prowten. I'm the president and CEO of JDRF Canada. We're the leading charitable funder of type 1 diabetes in the world. I'm joined by Dr. Alanna Weisman, who is a clinician scientist and endo

Finance committee  I'll start, and then I'll let Dr. Weisman maybe conclude. We did a survey of our constituent base, and 43% of those who responded indicated that they have trouble getting the disability tax credit, whether or not that's from their medical professional or through the system. It's