Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This may be more of a statement than a question, because I think we've seen today that it's easy for the opposition to activate their best hindsight and try to put words in people's mouths while talking about events they certainly did not predict and casting blame in connection with those events.
I want to quickly go over the things that we've been told today.
The government has been active over the last couple of years in opening lines of communication between the various parties, including AECL, the CNSC, the federal government, and industry. They've made arrangements in this situation for alternative supplies of isotopes. They've also made arrangements for alternative options for diagnostics.
The five-point plan is complete and thorough. I'll go over it again: getting the NRU operating as quickly and as safely as possible; trying to mitigate the short-term supply; working with other isotope producers to coordinate supply; exploring alternatives to moly-99; and encouraging alternative production sources that have been part of the Health Canada working group that was put in place to review the outage of two years ago.
There has been international participation through the international workshop on the security of supply of medical radioisotopes and the establishment of another international high-level group, which we will chair. We're moving ahead on Bill C-20 to encourage and enable investment, and the--