Thank you very much.
If the committee would allow me, I have a couple of questions just to clear it up for the committee.
It makes perfect sense. You want efficiency. You want to have one board examining these products so you don't have to duplicate it in each of your portfolios or areas. But we have before us three different departments of the federal government, all with three different formularies, all using the CDR and saying it's appropriate. The explanation you gave as to why they're not uniform is that the populations you're trying to accommodate are different. That sort of makes some sense. But it's physicians who prescribe the medication, and there are some in the Canadian armed forces who are female who might use the same birth control...whereas the first nations say they need a different product. Or there is even the insulin pump.
I guess where I'm coming from is that I have a difficult time understanding, even if it's not prescribed very often, why it would not be on a formulary as being acceptable, when it's a federal government department.