As you know, our government continues to focus on the health and safety of Canadians. We've worked, and we continue to work, domestically and internationally to promote a more secure supply of medical isotopes. Through Budget 2010, the government committed $48 million over two years for the isotope supply initiative to diversify the supply of isotopes and enhance the supply chain. This initiative has met with success with the recent announcement that companies have produced medically viable isotopes through a cyclotron and linear accelerator process, which does not use highly enriched uranium. We are very hopeful that that can be commercially produced and companies can continue to work at making these isotopes commercially viable on a large scale. By producing these isotopes through non-reactor-based means, we also help move the world away from highly enriched uranium, which has numerous nuclear proliferation concerns, as you know.
On March 27th, 2012. See this statement in context.