Thank you.
My name's Gordon Tapp. I'm sort of the unofficial spokesperson for the CREATE team. I was present when Ms. Raitt made her announcement about the restructure of AECL in Mississauga in May of last year and a lot of uncertainty, of course, popped up among the employees.
I'm also the president of the Chalk River Technicians and Technologists Independent Union up at Chalk River. At that time we also had some people down at Sheridan Park. So in order to allay a lot of concerns about the future of the two paths that are going to be taken by the AECL pieces--that CANDU part and Sheridan Park and the research part that was typically in Chalk River-- I approached our local MP in Renfrew County, Mrs. Cheryl Gallant. I asked if she could address the employees up at Chalk River about NRCan's future plans.
A lot of us have seen changes at AECL over the past 20 years and we wanted to address those changes at the same time. A lot of us had a vision of what the future could be and it was suggested to us by Mrs. Gallant that if our voices are to be heard, we should do something on our own. At that time, several interested persons from AECL, or from the Chalk River site, got together, including retired employees, and we formed this committee.
So to directly answer your question of whether we got any help, the answer is no. I did supply some--