Madam Speaker, I do not wish to speak for my colleague, the member for Victoria, our environment critic. I am not familiar enough with this issue to provide an informed answer.
However, I would like to keep speaking to the responsibility of the current and former Liberal governments as it relates to concerns over the commission's independence and potential conflicts of interest. During the testimony, Chief Duncan Malcolm Michano said, “I liken it to putting the fox in charge of the chicken coop.”
In fact, when it created the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission in 2002, the Chrétien government, a Liberal government, disregarded the unanimous 1998 recommendation of the Seaborn commission concerning the creation of an independent, arms-length organization responsible for radioactive waste.
That is where the problem started. The Liberals caused it and they are refusing to fix it now.