The federal government has virtually no role in funding or financing the operations of Canadian Blood Services. We are funded by the collective of the provinces and territories for all the products and services that we provide to Canadian patients. The sole exception to that is that the federal government is in a cost-sharing agreement with the provinces for the national organ donation and transplantation program that we administer for the whole country. There's a fifty-fifty funding agreement between the federal government and the provinces and territories for a total budget of about $7.5 million a year. All the drugs that we acquire through the $600 million a year formulary are provincially and territorially funded, not federally funded.
On May 2nd, 2016. See this statement in context.