Sure. I'd be happy to comment.
There were two procurement processes for nuclear new-build run by the Government of Ontario, actually, not the federal government. In 2009 I was an employee of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, a federal crown corporation. There was a lot of discussion, to your point, on the support for the domestic nuclear industry vis-à-vis international vendors. What I can say is that the approach and the mandate of the provincial government, which was running the procurement, was to find best value for the taxpayers and also have an open and transparent procurement process.
We were one of multiple bidders on both the 2009 and 2011 process. In 2009 there were three bidders, and in 2011 it was two. Neither of those two procurement processes ended up moving forward on nuclear new-build. But you're quite right in saying that it would have been a significant setback for the Canadian nuclear industry, and particularly CANDU technology, if an alternative technology were chosen for new-build in Canada. From a practical operations standpoint, almost all of the infrastructure in Canada supports CANDU technology, and it would have been a significant departure from the R and D and the whole body of engineering work that's been done over the past 50 years to support that technology.