Perhaps you can seek clarification from your staff, but I believe both of those shipments to Nordion were prior to the end of December.
I don't want to spend too much time on the decision in Parliament. We all supported it. We got to a position where we had a lack of isotopes and we had to get isotopes generated in our system. I understand it's operating normally and a Natural Resources Canada committee is looking at those questions.
I do object, however, to the way your government handled Ms. Keen. A regulator has to follow the law and regulate. If cabinet or Parliament have to take decisions beyond that of the capability of the regulator, then that's a job for cabinet or Parliament, and Parliament exercises responsibility in that regard.
I'd like to discuss a couple of areas with you. First, on communication--and this is coming from the presentation or in response to a question by Mr. Malkoske this morning--you didn't just deal with communications within Canada in your presentation, but international communications. Very few reactors are capable of producing these isotopes. We are the biggest producer.
If you look at this situation, we had an extended stage shutdown. At the same time, just subsequent to our shutdown, there were two other shutdowns by reactors internationally. It seems a simple solution to have an international protocol among all producers that no shutdown be very close to another, because one of those can always be extended for one reason or another.
Are those discussions happening internationally? Are we going to be in the position next year, in two years, or in ten years when exactly the same situation can repeat itself?