Mr. Scott Doidge (Director General, Non-Insured Health Benefits, First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, Department of Health) at the Health Committee

For about the past year we've been participating with our provincial and territorial counterparts through the pan-Canadian pharmaceutical alliance. We are representing the other federal departments at that alliance, so when agreements are negotiated through that consortium, we do provide those agreements through our federal counterparts. Then it's up to the departments to choose whether or not to enter into those product-listing agreements.