Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Minister, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. decided to withdraw from the assessment of ACR reactors in the United Kingdom. Ontario decided to open up its call for tenders to firms other than Atomic Energy of Canada. There was also the failure of the MAPLE research reactor project. Nonetheless, Canada is an expert in nuclear technology—you said so. All this raises doubts regarding AECL's ability to deliver the goods. If we were to look at these events from the outside, we might perceive AECL as lacking credibility.
Minister, how can we guarantee that ACR reactors won't have the same design problems as MAPLE reactors? Earlier, you said that we could not compare CANDU reactors to MAPLE reactors, because we cannot compare apples and oranges. However, can we compare the MAPLE design with the ACR design? In the eyes of the world, we seem to have come up short in quite a few areas.