Thank you, Madam Chair. The monitoring program itself will monitor drugs listed in the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. It doesn’t include all medications and it doesn’t include across-the-counter non- prescription medications.
We will be working with pharmacies to develop the program. We will be working with other professionals to help us develop the program, and it will monitor those particular controlled substances. Those controlled substances, for the most part, come out of pharmacies, but there are hospitals
that do dispense some and there are health centres across the Northwest Territories that do dispense some based on a very prescribed formulary that exists in each of the health centres. The intent is to track the dispensation of those controlled substances.