Thank you very much.
It's important to point out that scheduled maintenance shutdowns are common. They happen regularly. There was a scheduled maintenance shutdown in 2006, which was extended by ten days. These things do happen.
There was email correspondence with my office. There was mention at a meeting, Mr. Chair, but it didn't become clear until Monday. Even an email received on the afternoon of Friday, November 20, from ACL to Natural Resources Canada said they expected to resume operations in early December, that they were putting forward a one-pump solution, that there were discussions going on with the CNSC. So at that point in time, everybody expected that they would resume operations and that there would be no shortage, but obviously, as events unfolded after that Friday, on Monday it became clear that they were not going to be able to restore them, and in fact it could be as late as the middle of January or even longer before they would be able to restore them. Clearly, as I explained earlier, with the shelf life of the isotope being so short, this was a serious situation. So all hands were on deck at Natural Resources Canada. They were working around the clock, gathering the information, and we proceeded on that basis as we moved forward--