Veterans Affairs committee  As a rule, the negotiations contain, as Brian was saying, quite a number of considerations that have financial implications, but the nominal transfer is usually a nominal amount. In some agreements it's ten dollars, in some agreements it's one dollar. There is a financial exchang

Veterans Affairs committee  It's a federal-provincial agreement that is legally binding on both parties. There are dispute resolution mechanisms, and if a dispute gets legal it goes to the Federal Court. That's never happened, by the way.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thanks a lot.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you, Brian. The long-term care strategy that we have is based on the modern environment. If you look at when these hospitals were constructed, from 1946 to 1955, there was really no sophisticated long-term capacity in any province in the country. There is now, and more and

Veterans Affairs committee  No, I don't have the list, but they're in Fredericton, Gagetown, Halifax, Ottawa, London, Winnipeg, Calgary, and of course the one at Ste. Anne's. I may have left out one or two of them.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. The issue here for the modern veteran is the capacity for in-patient care for OSIs. That can be headed at Ste. Anne and networked into the OSI clinics. It's something we would maintain after transfer.

Veterans Affairs committee  I understand it, but I want to correct that for the other members who may not understand it. The point is that a change in the eligibility would have to be a change in government policy.

Veterans Affairs committee  What happened in previous agreements is where we require a different or a higher organization of care, we arrange for that, and if it's above the provincial standard of care, we pay for it. So that's certainly a possibility. That has happened in previous transfers.

Veterans Affairs committee  That summarizes it quite well, Brian.

Veterans Affairs committee  Allied veterans, as of a change in 2003, have access to the beds in Ste. Anne's Hospital if the care that they need is not available in their community.

Veterans Affairs committee  Certainly eligibility changes are a policy issue to be addressed by government. I should correct one thing, an impression that may be there. In order to be eligible for care at Ste. Anne's, you have to have served overseas. For instance, in the Second World War, fully half of th

Veterans Affairs committee  And Darragh Mogan from Charlottetown.