I'm afraid I have to confess that the question is a little too specific for my area of expertise. I'm well acquainted with the boilermakers, and they are very involved in our CANDU refurbishments.
However, just briefly on the topic of refurbishment, we are again getting another 40 years of the lowest-carbon source of power that we have on our electricity grid. It's very interesting. We are refurbishing Darlington and Bruce, but not Pickering.
One of my recommendations is that we continue our refurbishment to include Pickering. The loss of that plant, which is the same age as the Bruce A one that is being refurbished, is going to eliminate all of Canada's national emissions reductions progress to date. We're going to be adding the equivalent of eight million transatlantic flights every year, because we're replacing that clean nuclear energy with natural gas. It's my group's strong recommendation that we reconsider that.
Absolutely I think that the boilermakers deserve to be listened to, and we need to be supporting apprenticeships in these essential skilled trades. The refurbishments are moving along on budget and on time, and I think that they can continue to do so. Once we finish at Darlington, we can shift those workers over to Pickering and seal in Canada's nuclear advantage.