There are a number of places where there is collaboration. I think my colleague from Veterans Affairs was mentioning, just a couple of minutes ago, the work around negotiating a product listing agreement. In fact, we also do that now with provincial and territorial partners. This is a horizontal process. Health Canada is the lead federal department and supports the other federal departments in this process.
Also, in some cases, we work together to negotiate agreements with service providers. We were talking about the dispensing fee before. Sometimes between federal departments, we work together to enter into negotiations with pharmacy associations to negotiate better dispensing fees.
Yes, there is a certain level of collaboration. There is also collaboration on the technical side. We keep each other aware of listing decisions and criteria that are being used. There is some difference in the formularies, but usually it's because there is something that is specific to our population.
I mentioned before that we are covering some over-the-counter drugs in the first nation and Inuit health program. The reason for this is that there's a need to support prenatal and postnatal health and the development of kids, and these kinds of products are very important from a public health perspective. There are small deviations because of the different populations we serve.