Let me start with the last questions first.
The percentage of recommendations implemented is information that is reported to us from the departments. They do their assessment and we review it to see whether it's reasonable, but we don't actually go to them and audit to see whether this is all exact. It's only when we do the follow-up audits that we can assess whether the progress has occurred or not.
One thing I think will be very helpful, and something the committee may wish to consider at some future time, is the departmental audit committees that have been put in place fairly recently, with some very impressive people from outside of government. One of their main responsibilities is to follow up on audit recommendations, be it our recommendations or internal audit recommendations. It might be interesting, perhaps, for the committee to have a discussion with some of these audit committee members to see what they are doing and discover how they see their role and whether they see progress as well.
Concerning AECL, for many years our special examination reports, going back to probably the nineties, have been raising the question of the strategic direction of AECL and its funding. In the last report, we mentioned strategic challenges around the replacement of the reactor that is there. There is a project that had been in place for many years and that was not working, which has subsequently been cancelled by government.