Sure, I can take that. Thank you.
Generally, the way the RCMP health services presently works is under an occupational health model. As was said in the opening statement by Chief Superintendent Tousignant, except for immunizations we don't provide direct health care whereby we deal with members who are ill. That is the responsibility of the communities in which they live and of the health care providers within those communities.
We police hundreds of communities—hundreds of aboriginal communities, hundreds of northern, isolated communities—that have issues overall with access to all kinds of medical care, whether it's doctors, nurses, or nurse practitioners, and especially for psychological issues. The way we mitigate those issues, because we don't provide the health care itself, is that we have programs that Staff Sergeant Brown talked about: the member employee assistance program, which can assist people in a peer counsellor role, or by allowing access to different facilities.
For example, in the north over the past couple of years we have approached $750,000 to $1 million in travel expenses for taking our members from isolated communities and providing health care to them at an appropriate location.