Mr. Speaker, the member should know that the provinces and territories and physicians deliver health care.
The medical experts on isotopes developed contingency measures to manage the shortage of isotopes back in 2007. As soon as we became aware that Chalk River would be shut down, those measures were activated, which allowed doctors to triage and use the alternatives. In fact, thallium is now being used by the Ottawa cancer institute as an alternative to Tc-99.
These are the measures that were put in place by physicians themselves, and they are acting on them.