Fundamentally, we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars on health claims for people who are waiting for their asylum claim to be adjudicated, which is your purview.
One thing that was really interesting, which this committee was told, is that anaesthetists throughout Canada are billing five times more when they perform a surgery on somebody under the IFHP than under provincial health programs. My professional association, the Ontario Medical Association, would recommend that we bill 2.5 times more, but it seems like the sky is the limit, so doctors are billing five times more than they otherwise would.
Could you explain this?
