Thank you very much for the question, Mr. Chair.
We went in to do some work to find out where all the doctors were and what they were doing, and we were able to get information from the department on what the different positions were, who the general duty medical officers were, and others, and where they were being posted. We are looking at military personnel here; we're not talking about civilian personnel.
It was a fairly easy thing to do, I think, to find out how many people they had, how many people they had practising in the clinics and doing direct patient care, and how many they had doing other work.
The question of the 40% was then calculated. The important message that came out for us was why is it 40%? Is that reasonable to expect, given the situation of the Canadian Forces, given how the Canadian Forces is organized and given what people are expected to do? As General Jaeger has pointed out, there are some positions that do require doctors; there is no question about it. But do all of them require doctors? We believed that as part of the administration, as part of looking at their Rx2000 and going through and reorganizing themselves, this was a cost driver the department should look at.