I'm not actually sure that I can answer a lot of those questions, but I can certainly speak to the comment that I made.
Again, it's something that we see over and over again in a number of our audits. Some programs are sort of putting the focus on the process, rather than on the individual.
I think the point of my comment simply is that, as you move forward with this, make sure that the point of view of the person receiving the service is considered important. I don't think that's just going to be a matter of just saying that people will want this type of a program. That may very well be true, but what is the cost going to be? How is that cost going to be covered? What will those cost offsets be? I think that's all important information to understand. The different steps in the process are also important to understand, but they need to be understood from the point of view of what the impact is going to be on the person receiving it.
I can't get down into the specifics of all of the types of data. I think that, with the information that Health Canada and Veterans Affairs have given, if you do a quick calculation, it gets to a fairly large number. However, there may very well be some offsets to that number because there are a number of different programs in this field already. If they don't have to exist, are there some cost savings there that could be put towards this?
Then I think the other thing to be very careful of is, again, the fact that often in these types of programs it's not just a matter of the cost increase by the regular consumer price index or anything like that. The way that inflation in the health field can be significantly larger than in other fields is something that any government taking on a project of this scope would have to understand. They need to understand how they're going to deal with those types of cost pressures in the future, as well.