Mr. Speaker, attacking the regulator, taking him out of the process, is going to make the problem worse.
In a speech in June 2006 at Chalk River, the Minister of Natural Resources said “we're getting our house in order”. The house is not in order. AECL is a crown corporation. Its board is named by the government. The government should have known it was violating the terms of its licence.
Why did the minister sit here for 18 months doing nothing?