Thanks, Deputy.
The deputy is right. We have been a key player in this field in the past. Right now we work internationally with other partners to maintain the supply chain for the types of isotopes we need in Canada for use in cancer treatment, sterilizing medical devices, diagnostic procedures, the treatment of food and consumer products. The lead for maintaining that supply chain in Canada is the Department of Health, or Health Canada, at the federal level, making sure that the isotope supply is available to all who need it for all of those applications.
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, the CNSC, does play a role in licensing, as part of their regulatory functions, for the types of reactors that could produce isotopes if it was something Canada wanted to do again.
You are absolutely right. ISED does have, through its strategic innovation fund, the ability to fund R and D and commercialization, which could include a variety of different areas, including nuclear innovations.
Those are some of the things—