The initial amount of lump sum was based on pain-and-suffering court awards in Canada and about double what, for instance, workers' compensation pays. There are now court awards that are beyond the $262,000 or whatever the number is at the moment. They are based on a table of disabilities. It's much more restrictive than our own. Our own is probably the most generous table of disabilities. That's the means by which you calculate how disabled someone is. At the moment, by itself, I think the argument could be made that maybe it needs to be updated. But in the context of that and the dual award system, I think we'd have to have more evidence of the need to raise the rate. If we were to raise it, it would have to be a decision made by the government and the resources would have to be found to do that.
On October 20th, 2009. See this statement in context.