Mr. Speaker, I think the nuclear promise for Canada was best summed up years ago by commentator Fred Knelman, who said that nuclear is a future technology whose time has passed.
There is no future for nuclear as part of our solution to the climate crisis. It is very capital intensive. It is not labour intensive and it reduces very few greenhouse gases compared with the big winners. Energy efficiency investments and renewable energy investments outpace nuclear so clearly that one would only put money in nuclear if one were deluded and addicted to the technology, and I am afraid there are still some people in Natural Resources Canada who fall into that category.