Please ask them if they would reopen the BC Adult ADHD clinic that was closed down because the 1 year plus wait list to get diagnosed was too long and too politically embarrassing to the BC liberal government. The clinic asked for more money to reduce the 14 month wait list and the government refused so they shut down the clinic. They didn’t open the clinic elsewhere and just abandoned the patients that needed help.

The BC NDP said and did nothing about it too, despite several phone call attempts and promises to raise it in the legislature.

Ideally open it at another hospital than BC Children’s hospital. They added an adult ADHD clinic to the children’s ADHD clinic (it’s 85% genetic, and 5% of the population has adult ADHD) and adults very quickly became half their caseload.

It’s very hard to find someone who knows enough about adult ADHD to get accurately diagnosed, and I get continual calls and emails from all over BC looking to find someone who can diagnose adult ADHD, since most medical professionals aren’t trained to do so.

for background check out these 2 blog posts

http://tinyurl.com/25a9kq

http://tinyurl.com/yp58q7

V-Burrard is a unique riding. I hope that we can get an MP who actually understands the area, as opposed to somebody merely trumpeting their provincial party’s line on everything.