Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and my thanks to all of the witnesses for their attendance here today.
It's a process that has been developed over a number of years, but I still regard the assessment process as being in its formative or adolescent stage. Hopefully it will come to maturity in the next 10 or 15 years.
I don't have much time, so I'd like to direct my questions to Ms. Carpenter, with help from Ms. Kleb, regarding a couple of the proposals you have made. I want to commend the two industry representatives for giving us specific statutory language to work with. We are here to address the architecture of the act, so those kinds of proposals are very helpful.
Mr. Kneen, if you have any proposals for statutory amendments, this is just the committee. It will go to the government eventually. There will still be a lot of consultation. If you have proposals for statutory amendments regarding the architecture of the act, I invite you to let us know.
To the Canadian Nuclear Association, I would like to ask you about issues of substitution and equivalency. I think they are addressed on page 4 of your submission talking about one project, one assessment by the best-placed regulator. There's a comment that each process must have provisions that enable it to incorporate or accommodate the requirements of the other jurisdictions.
One of the concerns we've heard expressed this morning is that there's a difference between duplication and overlap. I think I understand that it's one thing to duplicate the same requirements and standards, but there may be an area where two legislative bodies or two regulators have overlapping jurisdiction but maybe different standards. I think in such a case one would want to ensure that not only the process is accommodated but the standards of relevant legislative authorities are also addressed in a single process.
I don't know if I've articulated that well enough to be understood, but if I have, can you tell me if that would be acceptable? Is that what you are contemplating when you speak about substitution and equivalency?