Thanks, Mr. Chair.
There are a number of questions that I'd like to ask, and I'll let the department determine who should answer them. I appreciate that they're all here today and appreciate the minister for his time here today as well.
I'm thinking of Atomic Energy of Canada. There are some funds that have been put forward from the Department of Defence to various organizations in the Canadian safety and security program. With the supplementary estimates, as I mentioned, there's DND, for the Canadian safety and security program. In January, the Swedish Security Service announced an investigation of drones at three of its nuclear power plants. There have also been reports over the years of other unknown drone-type flying objects over Canadian nuclear facilities.
With the security that we're in today, it's been recently announced in the United States that legislation has passed in their National Defense Authorization Act for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to report “the number of reported incidents, and descriptions thereof, of unidentified aerial phenomena or drones of unknown origin associated with nuclear power generating stations, nuclear fuel storage sites, or other sites or facilities regulated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.”
I'm wondering if any of the department officials are aware of the legislation that was just passed in U.S. Congress regarding these specific clauses.