We've heard before how the military does not provide medical care for dependants. I certainly have lived that, and I understand why, but there seems to be a bit of add-to that maybe we should. Setting aside the fact that that's not the way health care in Canada is set up at the moment, can you give us just an assessment for general edification? I know you can't give me a number, but I'm going to make a wag and suggest there are probably 200,000 dependants for the 60,000 or so military. In terms of small, medium, large, or “you've got to be kidding me”, what's the amount of money, infrastructure, and personnel it would take if the CF were to ever embark on providing medical care for dependants?
On November 27th, 2006. See this statement in context.