I am somewhat familiar with the licensing process and how some of these technical issues and debates unfold between the experts within the licensing groups and within CNSC. Again, not to impugn anyone's motives, but people do come to different conclusions on these matters. If there were some way to resolve these matters, a technical determination of the differences and what is the appropriate perspective, either through a mediation process or through some other process, it would be helpful.
The process right now, as it stands, is so unclear, so befuddled with the number of licensing conditions, that even the licensee often doesn't know what is a requirement and what is not. For that matter, the CNSC staff tend to forget what it was that they had asked. So there is a great deal of confusion and lack of communication and so on, which led to this particular scenario. It's ever present for all the other aspects of nuclear regulation in Canada.
The point I'm trying to make is that if that could all be brought out with a certain degree of clarity for both parties, it would be particularly helpful, and it would perhaps prevent this sort of impasse from coming to pass.