I'm wondering, though, how it was decided what spending should fall under vote 35 that needed this bridging. I'm interested in particular on page 81, under Natural Resources, where there is Atomic Energy, $222 million for the Chalk River Laboratories CANDU reactor. It's very controversial. If that spending was planned to go ahead anyway, what would have been the reasoning, and who would have applied for this to be part of the fast-tracked, enabled spending? Who would have made the request?
On May 14th, 2009. See this statement in context.