Thank you very much, Mr. Danko.
Through the chair, I apologize for my glibness earlier, when I referenced having a drink and talking about the Canada-U.S. relationship. It's a very serious issue. We're all impacted in different ways. One of my best friends from high school is in Minneapolis. We've talked regularly over the past few weeks, and what's happening there is absolutely horrific. I don't want to suggest that it's not a serious issue. It's certainly worthy of this committee's interest and hard work. I regret having been glib in that respect.
In terms of the work that we do at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, we take our mandate to deliver for Canadians very seriously. One of the most interesting things I find about CNL is that it doesn't really matter how much you support the nuclear industry or whether you believe there's going to be a future for nuclear as renewables get cheaper and battery storage gets better, because regardless of what happens at the national lab, if it were to shut down tomorrow, there would be a century's worth of environmental remediation and decommissioning work to do to restore that land to the state that Canadians would expect us to.
When I think about why I'm most proud to work at CNL, I think of decommissioning and waste management projects like the ones we did at Port Hope and Port Granby. You go to that facility near Darlington in the Durham region.... That was a hugely contaminated town, not just from the uranium refining that happened during the Second World War, although that was a big part of it, but also from the industrial sites that were left in really terrible shape. The Government of Canada reached an agreement with the municipality to clean up those highly polluted sites, and AECL delegated that work to Canadian Nuclear Laboratories. We have spent years methodically cleaning up these very polluted industrial sites, these radiologically contaminated sites, and now we're at the point where we are giving back the waterfront to that community. We dredged the harbour. We built new parks on former industrial sites.
That's the kind of work that all of us Canadians can be proud of being done on our behalf by Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, in addition to the exciting science and technology and things like targeted alpha therapy and the next generation of nuclear reactors.