Okay.
It's a rationalization of those services, but there's no impact in any way on the care to the veterans at Ste. Anne's Hospital or clinics in Quebec City or any other part of the country. None of that has been touched.
In addition to that, we have identified a savings that will occur as a result of giving veterans more choice in where a service will be carried out. The one that I like to use, because it's just the way it is--it's a real life example, if you will--is Sunnybrook Hospital, and I use the one in Halifax, Camp Hill. We're paying up to $100,000 a year for a bed for a veteran, where if the act, if you will, or the regulatory authority, allowed that veteran to stay at home, he could get the VIP services at home. But guess what? That's how some of the savings have been identified over time. If they had the choice to stay at home.... I know this actually sounds hard to believe as we're sitting here, but they don't have that choice today. They have to go to the high-end service. The veterans say, “If I had some help at home, I could stay at home. My wife wants me at home.” But you can't do that. You have to go to the.... You know.
Those are some of the savings we will realize going down the road, making some of those regulatory changes, so that's going to be reflected in that.
Also, Roger, the other thing that is a sad reality is that the biggest enemy of our veterans is Mother Time. I think we refer to it as Father Time; it's more of a negative term in English. Mother is always a softer, warmer sort of reference. So the enemy is Father Time. Every year we have fewer veterans simply because they are up in their eighties, and we're losing, on average, I think it's 2,000 veterans a month. It's an awful number when you think about it. Seventy-five veterans a day, today, in this country of 30 million people, will have passed away.
One of the sad realities of the times we are living in is the passage of some of these men and women just simply because old age has caught up with them.