Veterans Affairs committee  Well, we looked at the total of what we spent on medications per year.

Veterans Affairs committee  Well, it's difficult because, again, we're not a health care system. These are not patients we follow, who we have any—

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  Well, we could get that information from Blue Cross, because they're the ones who collect all the.... There are more than a handful. We have 8,000 people who are receiving authorizations from their physicians.

Veterans Affairs committee  Right, every doctor in Canada can give authorizations. If you have an MD or if you're a nurse practitioner with that scope of practice in your province, you can provide that, so the list would be very—

Veterans Affairs committee  Absolutely.

Veterans Affairs committee  Well, any specialist can authorize.

Veterans Affairs committee  What was your question again?

Veterans Affairs committee  We decided on a cap of three, because that's all the science and the information we could get from users, but everything above is on a case-by-case basis.

Veterans Affairs committee  Their average usage is 1.5 grams a day.

Veterans Affairs committee  Following this report, we totally restructured our formulary review committee. We restructured the membership. We put in guiding principles to make decisions, and evidence to be weighed to decide on whether we would or would not list a drug. Cannabis aside, all the other drugs go

Veterans Affairs committee  Through the Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research, it's an opportunity to exchange with them, to partner, and so we work closely with partners and allied nations that are all represented there.

Veterans Affairs committee  Again, we can't do work on our own. Collaboration and partnership are essential, especially in this field.

Veterans Affairs committee  No. We looked at that, and it's too early to see an effect. We continue to look at that but in these early years, we have not seen a significant decrease in antidepressants, opioids and all those other medications.

Veterans Affairs committee  We continue to monitor it.