Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, members of Parliament, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for having us today. I will speak to division 29, and start with a bit of background just to explain the context for this. In 2009, the government announced and initiated the restructuring of the crown

Natural Resources committee  Yes, certainly. The restructuring of AECL has been going on for a little while, so maybe I can speak to where we are in this process. Basically there are two main streams. There is a procurement stream and there is kind of a governance stream to make sure that we go through the r

Natural Resources committee  It is possible.

Natural Resources committee  If the legislation is passed, of course.

Natural Resources committee  I might ask my Treasury Board Secretariat colleague to complete my answer, but you're quite correct that the transitional coverage would apply to CNL employees who were CNL employees at the time of being transferred to the private sector. So the three-year coverage would apply to

Natural Resources committee  It will be the responsibility of the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories management at that time to determine the pension plan that should be in place.

Natural Resources committee  It's not impossible. It would be the responsibility of the company, which would be under private sector ownership at that point, to determine the pension plan that fits the needs at that time.

Natural Resources committee  I might defer to my colleague from the Treasury Board Secretariat for the rules of the game, but once an entity moves from the public service to the private sector they are not eligible to participate in the public service pension plan. These are the existing legislative requirem

Natural Resources committee  I think it will be up to the company to look at the compensation package as a whole at that time. The pension plan of course is a key component. It's key for employees, and we heard that as part of stakeholder engagement with these employees. It's a key concern of theirs, and we

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My name is Jean-Frédéric Lafaille, and I am the Director General of the sector called the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited Restructuring. Thank you for the question. I think the question was about how this funding would relate to the implementation of the g

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the question. There is currently a 70-year plan established by the nuclear laboratories to remediate all the waste that's been accumulated since the 1940s, so that has to go on. It will be managed by the new operator taking charge of the operations of the laborator

Natural Resources committee  I'm happy to answer that question, Mr. Chair. If we look at the practice in the past, $102.1 million was always provided to AECL in the main estimates, and each year we'd look at the incremental amount that would be required to fund the operations of the laboratories. If you loo

Natural Resources committee  I think we would need to refer to AECL to provide a more refined breakdown. What I could say is that within the entirety of the main estimates and supplementary estimates (A) and the budget, we would cover all the missions of the laboratories, which include science and technology

Natural Resources committee  We distinguished the funding to AECL to produce medical isotopes out of the NRU reactor from the funding provided to companies that are looking at alternative ways to produce medical isotopes. From the first item of the money to AECL to produce medical isotopes that would be part

Natural Resources committee  The medical isotopes market is really a global one. When we look at the future, and we've done a third party analysis of what is the projected demand and supply, which comes out of the OECD's Nuclear Energy Agency, the expectation is that supply will meet the demand even after th