I was always taught that if “coulds” and “shoulds” were “woulds”, we'd all be lumberjacks. But we're making the same point, I think.
I agree that there are certain aspects of this that could be tightened up, and that's why I think a protocol is so important. But when you look at what was available in terms of international supply and at the fact that this was an unscheduled shutdown—that is to say, a temporary shutdown was extended by the commission—those facts obviously made it difficult to come to any conclusion other than to restart the reactor, and that's what Parliament decided to do.
If we had known a little earlier, there is no question that we could have contacted provincial and territorial governments a bit earlier and could have gotten the experts into the field a little earlier. But when you are dealing with a shelf life for technetium of six hours and for its parent compound of less than three days—66 hours—as I said earlier, stockpiling is not an option. You can't stockpile for a rainy day in this situation, and that is the technical and technological challenge we face in this particular issue.