Mr. Speaker, there are some 800,000 shipments each year of radioactive material in Canada. It is not unusual for Transport Canada officials to liaise with local authorities and emergency response organizations to ensure that these shipments are carried out in accordance with the Dangerous Goods Act.
With respect to the planned meeting tomorrow it is obvious that some alarm had been raised. As my colleague the Minister of Natural Resources has said, there has been no request to transport this particular material and there has been no route decided so such a meeting was premature.