Madam Speaker, the recommendations that the Bloc Québécois made in its supplementary report contained at least one thing that could give citizens some reassurance. That was the idea of separating the mandates.
The Department of Natural Resources currently has a mandate to promote nuclear power, but it also has a mandate to oversee nuclear waste governance. It is as though the right hand is undoing what the left hand does. One of our recommendations is to make those mandates separate, as several witnesses suggested.
The Natural Resources Canada should deal with nuclear power and the promotion of nuclear power, while Environment Canada deals with nuclear waste governance. If nuclear power gets developed too quickly without the waste being dealt with properly and Environment Canada demands accountability, this might curb the sector's ambitions a little.