Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Let me respond firstly by saying it was precisely the action of our government that potentially prevented people from dying from an unnecessary shortage of radioisotopes that never had to happen. It never had to happen.
Nobody in my department or myself could ever have anticipated or forecasted or known that we were going to be in a situation in early December where there would be this dispute between AECL and CNSC, and we took the action we did. I believe we took the absolute correct approach in all of our decisions until it culminated in an act before Parliament. That was the only way to resolve this matter.
I believe and our government believes that the former president and CEO of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission did not fulfill her executive responsibilities in that position, and therefore we have acted as we move forward to bring in new leadership, as we have done with AECL.