Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. MacDiarmid, in the reply you gave awhile ago, you told us that the MAPLE was supposed to replace the NRU for the production of isotopes for medical purposes. When the MAPLE project ended, for all intents and purposes, it meant that within a short time Canada was going to stop being a major world producer of isotopes.
So why didn't you contact your international partners to tell them about the new Canadian position and ask them to produce more isotopes, to find ways of producing more and accelerating the new technology projects, since, if we take a look at the new, future technologies, we see that not one of them is Canadian? Why this silence?