Mr. Chair, everyone knows that the Chalk River reactor will not last forever and yet the government has refused to provide a plan B.
The Canadian Association of Nuclear Medicine issued a press release in response to the government's response to the NRCan expert panel report. It expressed concern with the emphasis and substantial funding for research on the production of isotopes with cyclotrons and linear accelerators. They noted that these approaches have been unsuccessfully tested and abandoned by the European countries due to poor yield, unreliability of production and quality control assurances.
Why did the government decide to ignore the advice and the evidence of the rest of the world? Does the minister even know about the concerns of the medical community?