Thank you. That's a very good question.
It's important for the committee to realize that when it comes to nuclear accidents, the cause is often—for Fukushima and Chernobyl—attributed to something called “institutional failure”, which is basically when the regulator and the operator dismiss the risks that the technology poses and start to cut corners. That's exactly what happened at Fukushima. There was a bad regulator.
What really worries me about the CNSC is that, instead of acting as an independent, unbiased regulator, it has become over the past 10 years a promotional agency. That was caused—I already gave a compliment to one side of the table—when the Harper government fired president Keen in 2008. What was really driving that, according to Ms. Keen, was that she was imposing modern safety standards on the licensing of the CANDU 6 reactor, which is a pre-Chernobyl, pre-September 11 design. I mention that in my briefing note. Ms. Keen was saying that if they wanted to build it in Ontario, they needed to meet modern safety standards, and that that was the CNSC's job as an agency. That got Atomic Energy of Canada and SNC-Lavalin, who's since bought Candu, very upset because they were losing money and competitive advantage. They fired her for that and put in a new president, Mr. Binder, who you've seen.
These are some of the hard things to measure. The tone of the commission has changed considerably over the past 10 years. If you look at the likes of their communications, instead of just putting out simple facts, they're often touting the industry and its accomplishments. That's where you start to see a sort of conceptual capture that goes on. They're more interested in trying to prop this industry up.
So I'm very worried about the commission. I've been intervening at the commission for the past 15 years. There was no love lost between Greenpeace and Ms. Keen, either. We had our own fights. It has gotten significantly worse, though, under Mr. Binder. When I talk with international journalists from the nuke industry, they're shocked at some of the things that come out of the CNSC compared to other international regulators. This is actually a topic that the committee itself should look into more deeply, I think.
Gordon, did you want to say something?