Veterans Affairs committee  I will ask Darragh to comment, but basically, back to the comments we made earlier, it's generally an agreement between the two provinces. It has to be a legal agreement, and it will cover many aspects of the agreement that is reached. Darragh, do you want to add to that?

Veterans Affairs committee  The nature of the legal document is the essence of the question. Are there any comments you'd like to make on that?

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you very much for your flexibility, Mr. Chair.

Veterans Affairs committee  I apologize if I left the impression that it wasn't possible to boil it down. I was offering a briefing on the broader subject. I will ask Darragh to give you in a nutshell the direction in which we're heading right now.

Veterans Affairs committee  No, that was operational stress injury clinics.

Veterans Affairs committee  The operational stress injury clinics are located across the country. Darragh, do you have the list in front of you?

Veterans Affairs committee  We'll get you the list of names of the hospitals.

Veterans Affairs committee  With respect to the operational stress injury clinics, they were set up specifically for the mental health concerns of veterans, including modern-day and traditional veterans. Those operational stress injury clinics are available for diagnosis and the development of treatment pla

Veterans Affairs committee  We have very active consultation with the provincial authorities on the management of the hospitals. We have annual plans that are put in place for the operations of the hospitals, of what we will pay for in the upcoming year, what the emerging needs are, the changing needs of th

Veterans Affairs committee  I can answer that. The reason is that we recognized the need to have clinical expertise in managing the developing network of OSI clinics that we wanted to create across the country, and Ste. Anne's offered a logical place to develop that expertise, because of the doctors who wer

Veterans Affairs committee  That's a hypothetical sort of question. If we had the opportunity to put it with ourselves, sir, we would have had to create a capacity somewhere—

Veterans Affairs committee  In all likelihood we will contract. We would retain the expertise and the staff of that facility under the department's authority, and it would simply be a matter of housing it. So we could enter into an agreement—

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm saying that there's a staff complement there of medical experts who would remain staff of the department.

Veterans Affairs committee  Well, we haven't decided how we will.... We're looking at options as to where the national centre would be housed. I simply mentioned that as one option. But basically, if that were the option we would not transfer the management of it; we would simply, under that option, likely

Veterans Affairs committee  Well, I think, as you can see, the national centre is a relatively small part of the overall hospital operations, and it's a part—