Good morning, everyone.
I'll just start by going through a few issues briefly.
First of all, I want to say that this meeting is a continuation of a study of nuclear safety issues, including the safety issues at the Chalk River nuclear reactor. We started this study about two weeks ago. We had invited two witnesses, who had agreed to come. The first was the Hon. Gary Lunn, Minister of Natural Resources. The second was the President of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, Linda Keen, who had agreed to come but at the last minute cancelled.
Today we have three witnesses. The first is from the Office of the Auditor General of Canada. I'll go into a little more detail on these later. The second is Linda Keen, who is a commission member. The third is the Hon. Tony Clement, Minister of Health.
I want to explain that this committee, at the last meeting, had agreed to invite three witnesses. The clerk did invite all of those witnesses. One witness, Michael Burns, indicated in a letter, which you should all have in front of you, that he would not appear and he gave an explanation for why he wouldn't appear. I believe you all have the letter in front of you. When that was clear there was a space at the meeting, and I invited the health minister, the Hon. Tony Clement, to come to the meeting. He was actually the first witness requested by the Liberal Party on its list of witnesses submitted. So that's where we are right now.
I see we have someone...I just want to finish the introduction here.
We will get to the witnesses. We have the Auditor General and others from her office at the table, but I understand there is someone who wants to speak, I presume on a point of order.
Madame DeBellefeuille.