Thank you, Mr. Duguid.
The nuclear industry is not looking for subsidies as it comes to the development and deployment of the first-of-a-kind small modular reactors. We have an integrated ask that is matched in funding and resources by four utilities across Canada—a truly pan-Canadian integrated ask—and is requesting that the federal government contribute financing to the first-of-a-kind related costs for three different streams of small modular reactors, so it's not subsidies.
But what I would say is that at this time the government does provide tax credit and preferable amortization treatment to green technology manufacturers and owners, and the nuclear industry should benefit from those tax credits as well, including any investment tax credit that might be extended to other forms of green technology. I think it's important that this committee consider, as we go forward and deploy more green technologies of all sorts, that small modular reactors be part of this.