Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
First of all, just briefly then, the facts are as they are, as I've outlined them. Clearly we had to act. This culminated in an act of Parliament. That was the only way we could ensure the safety of Canadians and in fact people would not die unnecessarily. It did not have to happen.
Every single party had an opportunity, had unlimited time, in the House of Commons and in the Senate, to question me, Minister Clement, both the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission and AECL, and independent experts before they made the decision to support the resumption of the NRU reactor so that it could produce medical isotopes--which, I might add, the president and CEO continued to maintain could not happen.
With regard to Ms. Keen, our government believes she did not fulfill her role, her executive powers--