Natural Resources committee  Thank you. No, that is not the intent of my statement at all. The point is that there is a climate crisis, but to some of the skeptics who question the role of nuclear, who also purport that there's a climate crisis, it's to those folks that I'd like to say this: If you're propos

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, though, for that question.

Natural Resources committee  It was a Government of Canada decision, back in the day, as part of its restructuring process. It wasn't an industry decision. I'd encourage you to get clarification on it. Back in the day, the government of that time was looking at that.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for that question. We have a very strong supply chain. There's the fact that the refurbishment programs—let's just start there—of OPG and Bruce Power are on time and on budget. Some of those projects are actually ahead of schedule, and they went through a pandemic that

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the question. I'll try to answer that. In terms of the proposed concept of having a much more efficient regulatory system, it's really not made on the concept of saving monies. The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission is one of the world's best regulators, and it's

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for that question. Maybe I read my statement a little fast because I was worried about the time. Certainly, Canada is a leader in uranium mining. Cameco is an example of a great company providing a lot of jobs in northern Saskatchewan. Indigenous communities are part

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the opportunity. From the nuclear perspective, obviously we often have different technologies at play, but in some of these spaces—for example in the small modular reactor space—we are actually finding there's an evolution of a new continental approach to some of t

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much for this opportunity on this important conversation we're having today. My name is George Christidis, and I am vice-president of government relations and international affairs at the Canadian Nuclear Association. I would like to start off by acknowledging

International Trade committee  Yes, indeed. The very small reactors would provide an opportunity for those indigenous and northern communities to have a non-emitting, clean technology that would be able to displace diesel, and with the carbon pricing and the costs associated with emissions, as it were, place

International Trade committee  It's really an opportunity to make sure that in the nuclear energy space.... Nuclear exports do require state involvement and state promotion, which of course the Canadian government has done, but we need to continue those efforts. Coordinating working with like-minded countrie

International Trade committee  Canada is one of the top uranium producers and exporters. Therefore, there would be high interest in the industry to facilitate exporting more of the product. Yes, I think there's an opportunity in international trade discussions for robust discussions to be included, which they

International Trade committee  Yes, medical isotopes are obviously very important. Ontario Power Generation and Bruce Power, etc., are producing isotopes from CANDU reactors. They're used for medical purposes. Yes, that is a unique product that will have international opportunities.

International Trade committee  From a Canadian nuclear perspective, given they are nuclear technologies, you need nuclear co-operation agreements in place between Canada and those respective markets. Geopolitics will play a significant role in some of those discussions, whether it's about exporting more uraniu

International Trade committee  I think that's a little bit of a dated view of where the public is. I think you're seeing a significant increase in wanting to learn about how technologies like nuclear will address issues like the climate crisis. It's really this transformation of the realization that emissions

International Trade committee  Yes, fundamentally, the message is—and I'll say it very quickly—the recognition that nuclear has an environmental benefit and an energy security benefit. If you look at the world now, with the relationship vis-à-vis what's happened in Ukraine, this will intensify. There will be