Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to both witnesses for being here this morning.
This is a very important conversation, of course, and, Mr. Whitlock, you mentioned that ordinary Canadians are involved in this decision-making and will help make these decisions, yet in listening to your testimony this morning, and to Dr. Ramana's, I'm hearing slightly different things. I want to ask about one aspect of it, because you're a nuclear physicist and a professor emeritus, a specialist in this area, and you're having a conversation that is not completely aligned in terms of what the risks and proper handling are of this.
For ordinary Canadians to have those rational conversations, how much information do you think the people who are living in these areas have? We're down to two possible sites for the geological repository. How informed do you feel the people in these areas are about what this means for their region—not just for their town, but their region—and about how the waste will actually be moved and handled before it's put into these deep geological repositories?