Thank you for your question. It is a big question.
Perhaps I could begin by saying--and this might help to clarify part of the question from the previous member--that the VIP program is intended to top up provincial programs that are available for veterans and anyone else who is eligible. People access the programs locally, as anybody would, through an assessment by their local health authority or, in Quebec, through the CLSCs. After that assessment, they are allocated a certain number of hours or services by the CLSC or by the health authority where they live. After they are allocated those services, we will still take an assessment from Veterans Affairs and see if there are other services or benefits they weren't eligible for or that had hit a limit in the province, and we will augment the services they receive to ensure that the full scope of their needs are being met.
With respect to the question within your overall comments, if someone is on a wait-list for services from the CLSC or a health authority in another jurisdiction, they do not wait for our services. We will apply the VIP services to people while they're waiting for the provincial services. They will not go without. We don't have a wait-list for VIP. If you're eligible for VIP, you, like any other citizen in the province, will access your provincial home care services. When you do that, we will also assess you from a Veterans Affairs perspective and provide you with the additional services you may need, if you need them. If you're on a wait-list and there is an absence of services, we will apply our services at that point.