Mr. Chairman, I will remind the member of the committee that I am not a member of the government, I'm an adviser to the minister. My requirement is to provide advice on dealing with the crisis, and I believe I am doing that to the best of my ability.
When I look across the country, certainly in Alberta we are coping very well indeed. When I talk to my colleagues in small urban Ontario, I know they're having more difficulties.
If the NRU is going to be down, we have to find alternatives. In terms of alternatives we have found, iodine-131 from South Africa is approved and is now in routine use, and we have not seen any significant disruption in the treatment of patients with thyroid cancer.
The government—