Thank you to all of the witnesses.
I'd like to continue with Dr. Rayner just to follow up on his comments on the need for good public engagement, in particular around the free, prior and informed consent that you mentioned with first nations.
We have a situation, for instance, at Chalk River, where the Kebaowek first nation is.... I don't want to speak for them, but they clearly seem very, very concerned about what's going on at Chalk River without their consent. They want a complete, new review of how nuclear waste is dealt with in Canada. They have really made the point that they have not been adequately involved in the past nor in the present in this. We have the first nations Chiefs of Ontario coming out with a very strong statement against the use of this narrative of using SMRs on remote first nations communities as one of the first uses of this technology.
I was interested to hear your comments that we shouldn't rush into this. I keep thinking of how a lot of our previous energy policies were rushed and then delayed because of the lack of proper consultation with first nations in particular. In that rush to get pipelines built, etc., we ended up having them delayed because the courts got involved, and it was found that consultation hadn't occurred properly.
Could you follow up on as to whether we're kind of rushing into this and not putting a good foot forward in the SMR field with regards to first nations especially?