It gets very complicated because of how airflow works, but some of the numbers also establish it. It doesn't include Atlantic Canada. It doesn't include the western provinces outside of southwestern British Columbia. It doesn't include northern Ontario or Quebec, and it doesn't include the territories. You can start to see that this number would go up.
Also, within the numbers is a bit of a low estimate for certain health events, such as an emergency room visit, based on Health Canada numbers determined from a 1995 study, a 1996 study and a 2007 study, I believe it was. We adjusted those numbers for inflation with regard to what an emergency room visit would be. That only got us to around $3,500. That's not what an emergency room visit costs in 2025, because health care costs have vastly outstripped inflation.
There are numbers. This was a very conservative estimate. We did our best to really give the benefit of the doubt in the numbers, because we didn't want to paint an inaccurate picture. We wanted to provide a floor for good policy decisions to be made.
