Mr. Chair, I can, first of all, say that safety is number one. I chair many meetings within AECL, everything from the design of nuclear reactors all the way to the operations of the CRL facilities. The first question I ask every senior executive is, what can you tell me about safety? Health, safety and environment is the first agenda item.
With all of the people who report to me, there are safety goals in their performance reviews. Mr. McGee will say that his performance is based on our judgment of how safe he is operating our facilities.
Safety is not number two. It is not number three. It is not number four. It is number one all the time and there are no targets that compromise that target being number one. I do not care what it is that we are managing, there is nothing more important than safety, whether it is making isotopes or operating the Chalk River site.
I would have to say and want to stress that safety is number one. There is no case in which safety is not number one.