Mr. Chair, it really comes down to some sort of risk and gamble as to whether or not we believe that AECL will be up and running without this legislation or whether or not there will be some other requirement or some requirement that it does meet and Parliament will have recessed. There will be nothing then that allows AECL to get up and running with this particular set of conditions that is contained in the legislation that is before us tonight.
I really feel that is what the bottom line is here, to get an assurance that this facility will be up and running and that this legislation will ensure that it happens because Parliament will not be sitting.
We have still not been given tonight an assurance that without the legislation that it will be up and running. If we total up the days we are talking about two days for a safety case, three days approval by the commission, three days possibly for start up, four days for low yield, and three days normal period of some products. We are looking at maybe another two weeks plus minimum when we may or may not see this reactor up and running.
I think from that point of view we have to really look at the risk here and ensure that if this legislation is required that there is a provision where AECL can get up and running even if Parliament is not here, a provision for regular reporting back to the House, and the provision that the commission still has all of the regular oversight that it has always had and that it will continue to have.