Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, witnesses, for coming here today on this issue.
I'd like to start by talking about the safety record of the existing CANDU reactors in Canada. It's my understanding that we do have a very strong safety record. We have reactors that have been built with multiple safety features on them. These safety features actually have hampered the ongoing maintenance of the equipment that is in place, and that may be part of the reason that our costs in our systems are higher than others in other parts of the world, because of the nature of the maintenance that has to go into these overlapping systems.
What do you see for the future of the nuclear system, with the new reactors that are coming onstream? Are we going to see a similar safety record, with the same types of redundancies that are in place with the existing system?