—if we can help it.
I have to say I'm confused, though, when you talk about world standards, because the $650 million represents about half of what other countries are proposing for their own liability: Japan, $1.2 billion; Europe, in adjusted dollars against the euro, about $1.2 billion; in the U.S., it's pooled and unlimited; in Germany, $2.5 billion.
I'm looking at a 2007 study, not one from 2002, which is when this number was first floated. We're now seven years beyond that; I think things have changed. The federal government did a study of what a dirty bomb going off in Toronto would mean, in terms of cost, and estimated the cost at around $24 billion. That was a defence department study of the cost for repair of a major accident. We don't wish to foretell of major accidents, but we need to incorporate the idea of what it would actually cost if one of these nuclear facilities had a serious accident. I'm a bit confused about how we come to this figure of $650 million, and then, going around the world, see that the limits are much higher—twice as high, in almost every instance, as what is being proposed in this legislation.
One question I have for you is, are you aware of the government's willingness to raise this limit? Do you know of this committee's ability to raise the limit through this process?