Mr. Speaker, the government is simply trying to buy time here.
The truth is there are no alternative supplies of isotopes, no adequate alternative supply of isotopes, just as there was not when Chalk River was shut down 18 months ago. The world's two major reactors in the Netherlands and South Africa do not have the capacity to make up the shortfall, and both will be shut down for maintenance next month.
When will the government get up and tell us the truth and come up with a plan to deal with its own incompetence?