Mr. Chair, as I said in my opening statement, there are no nuclear facilities in Canada that are not regulated by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.
My interpretation of this clause as an expert is that AECL would be self-regulating its own reactor and that it would not be under this. This provides significant risk not only to the reactor, but to the employees and the communities that live around this reactor. There would not be the benefit of the oversight of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.
I would like to add that I am the chair of the Convention on Nuclear Safety and we in Canada are acclaimed for the quality of the nuclear regulation that we have, so this would be without precedent in Canada.