We have to be very clear. The provincial health care systems have a huge role to play in the health of the veteran. VAC is not here to police whether it is the medical health system, provincial health care systems, or VAC. I say that because it's often been said when we see something identified. I think you will be meeting the chief medical officer, Dr. Cyd Courchesne, on Thursday. She's a retired commander from the navy, so she understands the Armed Forces quite well; she was DG Pol. When we notice something, we have a committee that will take it up. We have written letters to the medical associations or the College of Physicians of the various provinces because they have the ultimate responsibility. When we identify something, our doctors will look at it and then refer it to make sure they're getting proper care. The care of the individual is with his or her doctor and often we're not even privy to all the related information. It's a doctor-patient relationship, so we're not even privy to all the information when it comes to service-related issues that we're dealing with.
The only exception to that would be on the mental health side, where we pay the provinces to run operational stress injury clinics throughout the country. They are not our employees, however they work only for veterans and RCMP members—when I say veterans I do include our colleagues, the RCMP—and we pay the full bill. If it's a psychiatrist, psychologist, mental health nurses, caseworkers, or social workers, Veterans Affairs pays. We give them what we expect them to deliver, we track the performance, and we follow up with them. That's the only area where we put a caveat and it's in the realm of mental health and our OSI clinics, because that I think is more specialized care for our soldiers.