Mr. Speaker, it is particularly apropos that he recognizes that people in Ontario are being heavily taxed for their power. That is why a safe, efficient and clean form of electricity is really important to us in Ontario.
In terms of safety, if the member were to look at the accidents and deaths resulting from coal powered plants or the industries that mine and produce the coal for the industries, I think the member would find that there have been far more accidents than in nuclear industry. In fact there have been no deaths in Canada attributed to the nuclear industry.
In terms of cheap, it is becoming more cost effective and will become increasingly so with the implementation of the Kyoto protocol.
In so far as waste goes, only 1% of the fuel, the uranium, is transformed during the process.