First of all, I would like to make a comment. The people that the minister appoints to sit on a review panel are chosen with care. Your colleague asked me if a minister had ever disregarded one of our recommendations. The agency recommends the members for that panel. We are very careful to ensure that these are people who, as far as we can know, have no conflict of interest whatsoever. Obviously, someone who works for an engineering firm would never be appointed to a panel. With the best will in the world, no one is impartial. We examine that with care, and the people appointed are generally people who have no links, however tenuous, to this industry. It is often people who are very well known within academia. They know the field well and they are going to ask the right questions. We do not decide where the bar should be set. They decide for themselves what is acceptable and what mitigation measures should be taken into account. In the case of nuclear plants, I imagine you are referring to Ontario.
On December 5th, 2006. See this statement in context.