We can send our patients to any civilian health care professional. To do so, we use the Blue Cross, which covers the costs for us. All that can be paid. Any clinician in Canada will be paid to care for our injured or ill members.
In the reserve, we also have the framework of the primary reserve, which is part of the first field ambulance and hospital. That enables us to enrol clinicians from any part of the country. They are not active; they only work two weeks a year with the Canadian Forces. They are volunteers who are part of the reserve force—that reserve is inactive, except when its members are called up for military service.
When necessary, we can call them up for a minimum period of two weeks a year for military service. They may be called up to provide health care, participate in an operational deployment, take courses or anything like that.
So we have mechanisms that enable us to enlist members of a professional health care corps who live in regions where there are no militia units or Regular Force units.