We also heard from your officials that supplies that are some thousands of miles away are a concern in terms of being able to get them to the processors and to the patients who need them. You're counting on South Africa and potentially Australia, and you're suggesting that's the same thing as having something up the road at Chalk River. That is not compatible. That does not make sense with the testimony we heard today.
My concern is that you had 18 months to fix the problem and give Canadians some greater assurance that the cancer they're facing and the stress their families are facing would be alleviated by a consistent and excellent supply. That has not happened. Now we have an indefinite shutdown of one of the major world suppliers. To say this is somehow a global phenomenon and that you were surprised the reactor went down again--one of the oldest reactors in the world, one that's had a litany of problems--and to simply rest upon the ability of that reactor to produce these critical isotopes seems irresponsible. Then you refused to call it a life and death situation today, but in 2007, when there were other reactors up and running, it was a life and death situation, and we had to fire Linda Keen in order to get things back up, because Canadians were going to die.