Thank you for your very interesting question.
Our group is responsible for a program that I mentioned earlier, the Maintenance of Clinical Readiness Program. My team works in close harmony and synergy with them. My team's role is to promote opportunities within civilian hospitals or with ambulance services, for example, so that our clinical personnel maintain their readiness and keep their skills up to date.
It takes different shapes, depending on the profession. For example, our specialists work full-time in hospitals, in highly specialized centres like McGill and Sunnybrook in Toronto. They work full-time to be at the top of their game. The only exceptions are when they need to take predeployment training or be deployed. That is how it works for our specialists.
Doctors and nursing staff are in demand. They go primarily to hospitals, where they work in various departments, generally speaking in the emergency room, to deal with trauma and anesthesiology. This program works very well. Our collaboration is excellent. It is a win-win situation. We provide assistance, and the experience our personnel receives is incomparable. It is very enriching for them to receive that. We offer our personnel these opportunities to keep their skills up.
My team has put in place memoranda of understanding. The collaboration is two-way, not just one way. We prepare the arrangements for activities like these and negotiate favourable conditions. Sometimes that means negotiating certain aspects with provincial departments of health.