Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Through you to the witness, first of all, please forgive my opposition colleagues who through innuendoes about your appointment to the board of AECL are attempting to smear a woman who has served in the public service for over 30 years.
The CNSC had staff on site at Chalk River for well over a year when...and in the entire 50 years of that reactor being in existence, it was safer than ever before. Now, recognizing that MDS Nordion did not contact the department during the week of November 22 to November 30, through your subsequent conservations with AECL, MDS Nordion, and CNSC, was there some other threat, something else, that all of a sudden was having the CNSC declare that reactor unsafe?