Madam Speaker, I have to tell the hon. parliamentary secretary that I think his commitment and his government's commitment to nuclear energy is entirely misplaced and lacking any evidence making any kind of reasonable case that nuclear energy contributes to addressing the climate crisis.
I note the parliamentary secretary's point to the hon. member for Repentigny about radioisotopes. I recommend that he look at what cyclotrons do, particularly the TRIUMF cyclotron in North Vancouver. The government has also invested in producing radioisotopes without the threats to the environment and human health presented by relying on nuclear energy.
The reason the Greens continue to oppose nuclear energy and do not see it as a solution to climate change is very simple and practical: It does not produce electricity at anything like the cut-rate cost of renewables. We are now getting solar in at less than three cents a kilowatt hour. We can roll out solar, from the minute we decide to do it to when it is producing electricity, in a matter of months. Any new nuclear reactor takes more than a decade, and the costs break the bank of any province.
To that, I would add for the parliamentary secretary to please consider that this Parliament has never once had a debate on nuclear energy and a vote on whether it is a good idea or not. The last time and the only time—