Mr. Speaker, the secret cabinet document which everybody seems to have except the Minister of Natural Resources, which I would gladly table for him later, references the fact that the layoffs at Whiteshell Laboratories in Manitoba have jeopardized the ability of the government to deal properly with this issue.
Will the minister commit to postponing the remaining layoffs in Pinawa? Will he also assuage the fears of residents in that area, given the presence of the underground research laboratory at Lac-du-Bonnet, that the area will not become the site of any future nuclear waste dump?