Yes, thank you for that question. As I stated in my opening remarks, under the federal program that we're responsible for, the non-insured health benefit program, we've put in a number of measures that have produced great work and results. In fact, the Auditor General commented that this is a model of putting in systems with checks and balances and commended Health Canada for its efforts in monitoring this particular program.
Through the work that we have introduced through the non-insured health benefit program, as I stated, we're able to track spikes in prescriptions, such as OxyContin, across the country. We're able to investigate which physicians are actually prescribing. We have also been able to detect fraud in the program and those particular incidents have resulted in RCMP involvement and charges being laid and going through the court systems.
We take that matter very seriously. This program was designed to provide services to the most vulnerable in this program. It concerns me that there is abuse in the system, and we will take corrective actions.
In Nova Scotia a pharmacist has now been incarcerated for the fraud that was committed. In Ontario we continue to investigate, and in Manitoba as well as Saskatchewan. We are doing our part to monitor this program very closely.