Thank you, Mr. Chair.
A number of issues around waste of course are very important. I have actually had the experience of two waste cleanups in my community where I live in the Northwest Territories. One of them was the result of a trail of yellow-cake from the Port Radium mine that went through the system and 70 years later you could still find where anybody had dropped any of this material on the roadway or anything that had happened. It's a very long-term source of concern to people, nuclear waste, and it doesn't go away very easily.
As well, I went through the cleanup of Kosmos 954 when it burned up over the Northwest Territories. It burned up probably 300 kilometres away from my home, and still, when they did the cleanup, they could go into my driveway and they could sort the radiation. The particles of radiation had fallen in my driveway from a device about two-feet square. They could find those pieces in my driveway, and this was in a radius of, as I say, 300 kilometres from where the device burned up in the atmosphere.
I think you see where I'm going here. There is a lot of concern about nuclear waste, because it doesn't go away. You can put it in storage. You have to maintain the storage. You have to ensure that it is done well. And if anything goes wrong in the process, such as with Three Mile Island or Chernobyl, you have a problem with this particulate through the system. It's not a light matter.
Who, ultimately, has responsibility for the nuclear waste now existing in Canada?