Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for being here today.
Dr. Walker, I want to congratulate you on the birth of Canadian Nuclear Laboratories on November 3. As we've been talking about, AECL is going through a period of change. For many employees that represents excitement, because they know that there are opportunities and there are new opportunities coming. We just talked a little bit about those opportunities. They also want some certainty, whatever certainty might be able to be provided, for their futures. And that's reasonable.
Now, I've been through quite a few restructurings in the newspaper industry. It seems to me that the three-year transition period we've been talking so much about today is a very long and generous period of time as far as the private sector goes. I wonder if you could just comment on that and maybe talk about what the transition period was the first time, during stage one.