The latest is gob-smacking. He's now denying the disability tax credit to those with type 1 diabetes. I'm lucky - I'm not a type 1 diabetic, nor is anyone in my household. However, I have known a few who are afflicted with T1D, a cousin, my step-daughter's sister, a child in the baby group my daughter belonged to, my sister-in-law. My only first hand experience with diabetes, was when I was pregnant with my daughter I was a gestational diabetic - (more akin to type 2 than type 1 and I was lucky to be able to control my condition with just diet and exercise - not an an option for type 1). The reality of T1D is that it's expensive (think around $1 per test strip and needing to test several times a day) plus the cost of insulin, and time consuming. I've heard that the costs can easily exceed $5,000 per year
This tax credit is a small step up to help those who contend with a disease that they didn't ask for - to effectively manage it and mitigate the equally expensive complications that can arise from diabetes that isn't managed appropriately.
So I find myself writing yet another letter to my MP and this government regarding this issue. Thankfully - diabetes Canada has an easy to use template to download from their site and doing this will only take a few moments.