Les pays européens sont signataires de conventions internationales qui exigent un niveau de couverture privée correspondant, grosso modo, à 500 millions de dollars canadiens. Certains de mes collègues pourraient s'enquérir de la possibilité que nous décidions unanimement de porter la limite à un milliard de dollars pour les compagnies d'assurance privées, mais les choses ne sont pas si simples.
There are international conventions to which the European countries belong, and to get into the conventions they have to have domestic coverage of at least $500 million Canadian—roughly, as an estimate And in response to a question that may come from my colleagues, if the wish of the committee is that we all agree to raise that to $1 billion from private insurance companies, it's just not that simple.