We currently have a reciprocity agreement with the United States. As a result, if any incident in Canada caused damage in the United States, American victims would be able to come to Canada to have access to compensation under our legislation. Similarly, under the United States' legislation, the Price-Anderson Act, they would avail themselves to claims from Canadian victims in the event of a U.S. incident that resulted in such victims.
The U.S. system is very much like the Canadian system. We have legal channelling in our legislation and say that the operator is absolutely and exclusively liable for damages resulting from the incident. In the American system they use what's known as economic channelling, but the bottom line is that the result is the same. Operators are liable for damages irrespective of any other parties. As Mr. Dupont explained, the American system includes higher limits in total. The individual operator has less of an onus to carry insurance than what would be the case under the new Canadian system.