Citizenship and Immigration committee  We are not necessarily negotiating with each person. We rely on a system, a formulary—the Quebec formulary—that has already been negotiated, that already exists. We make it the same for everyone. It is a federal program. The pharmacists are already licensed; the Ordre des pharmac

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have even done price comparisons, to go back to the example that came up in connection with HIV. Everything is carefully compared.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If the prescription specifies no substitute medications, that will be paid for. There is really no reason for litigation, but we are continuing the discussions in order to understand what AQPP wants.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can answer that, if I may, since our office has dealt with it. In fact, yes, we were aware there were delays, so we have reviewed all the claims that we received. Either they have been paid—those that were delayed, and it was a real payment—or they were adjudicated and the phar

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In fact, with regard to this report of an agreement in 1991, we have no evidence of that. At that time, it was Health Canada that had that program under the non-insured health benefits program. It was transferred to CIC in 1994. We never received any evidence that there was such

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. Well, your question--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, fine. First, these are refugees asking for protection and, under the law, Canadian society has the obligation to give them that protection. There is also the category of Convention refugees, and, with the commission, we have already agreed to bring them to Canada. Those int

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I missed the first question. What type of...?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In fact, I have some statistics here. Basically, as was mentioned, there are refugee claimants, who are either waiting for their claims or whose claims have been rejected and are awaiting their removal from Canada. So these are covered. There are resettled convention refugees,

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In fact, yesterday, what is understood is that with the joint work with the AQPP, the AQPP has directed their pharmacies to resume the provisions of the program as per the principles of the IFH. This means that now the recipient, when he or she arrives, will receive the medicatio

Citizenship and Immigration committee  But we hope that the discussions will lead to pharmacists being allowed to have that interface. It will take three weeks by the time it is rolled out, so in the interim the bills will be sent and they will be processed as quickly as possible.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If you are an eligible person, client, yes, you will be able to access. You are prescribed that drug free of charge, and it will be the pharmacist who has the responsibility to send the bill directly by mail to Medavie Blue Cross.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  They will then proceed with the reimbursement, yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In fact, there is something in the system right now, and we have made a demo that we provided, in fact offered, to the AQPP when we met on the 31st. There is already something in the system. So as soon as the authorization is given by the AQPP to the developer to install this int

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll just mention that my department is now working to put together a draft to summarize what is already there, to be certain the AQPP understands that. We aim to work to present that later this week or early next week, and then we'll move on from there.