I'll answer first that this was not an audit of the safety of the plants. This was an audit of whether or not the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission followed its own rules. It's very clear.
It's clear to us as well that it's likely the industry is ahead of the regulator. I tend to agree with Mr. Jager that within the industry, safety is in their DNA. I spent a few years in the mining industry. It is in their DNA. It never used to be in the mining industry. It is now in their DNA.
The industry is making sure that it's safe, but the regulator has a role to play. We looked at the role of the regulator. I also want to make it really clear that we looked at one tool the regulator uses. The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission is looking at its logbooks every day and has meetings with them every day and is using all these other tools, but it says in its own documents that the site inspections are the primary tool. They have a bunch of other tools, but the site inspections are the primary tool they use, so we looked at the primary tool. Unfortunately, we couldn't look at everything.
It's not just administrative. We saw more than one five-year plan for minimum site inspections, so which one is it? In an industry that requires precision, that probably lives with precision, to have a regulator that is not as precise, as rigorous, as systematic as the industry, is the part that's not acceptable from my perspective. They have to be as rigorous as the industry, if not more so, and to come and show me three rolls of five-year plans.... Which one is it? As an average Canadian, I don't think it's right from the regulator's perspective to have a five-year plan of the minimum number of site inspections morph into something that's not really the minimum but kind of the whole list of possibilities.
I'm going to try to answer the question. I can't tell you the safety of our plants. That's in the hands of the operators. We looked at one tool that the CNSC uses, the primary tool. We found some gaps. Are they purely administrative? I would say no, but they're still doing the site inspections. They're following up 100% of the time when they have a non-compliance. They're not doing them with approved guides, so it's like a pilot who has a checklist not having the checklist. Most pilots have a checklist. The operators are the pilots in a sense, but the inspector is also kind of a pilot for his site inspection and should have a checklist to cover everything. I want to know that the inspector is perfect, if you know what I mean. I want the industry to be perfect. It's in their DNA, but you would expect the regulator to be just as precise, just as risk-based, just as systematic.