Natural Resources committee  One comment I would make on this is on the SARS impact for Toronto. I didn't see any mention of.... Industries such as tourism would be greatly affected if there were an accident at the Pickering nuclear station. Even if it was a near miss, it would become known worldwide. There's probably no ability in the bill to deal with that.

Natural Resources committee  What I would say in regard to the report is that after we released it, the provincial Minister of the Environment referred it to the Ontario drinking water standards committee, which is currently undertaking a review of tritium standards in Ontario, which is exactly the issue we raised in the report.

Natural Resources committee  I don't think there should be a cap. We're still learning about the health impacts from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as from Chernobyl, and intergenerational impacts are just that--they're intergenerational, so we won't necessarily see them show up. It will take a great deal of study to trace it back to what the original impacts are at the population level.

Natural Resources committee  Well, there are two things. In terms of intentionally making a flawed assessment or intentionally omitting things, I will give you an example. One of the biggest areas where the probability of an accident can occur is in terms of what's called external events—floods, earthquakes, erratic weather, terrorism....

Natural Resources committee  That's a very good question. First, the Senate committee on natural resources in 2002 looked into risk assessments at the CNSC and had a number of large criticisms around how they were done, so it's not specifically Greenpeace that has addressed this. They made a number of recommendations.

Natural Resources committee  Good morning. My name is Shawn-Patrick Stensil, and I am an energy and climate campaigner for Greenpeace Canada. I'll make my presentation in English, but I'll be pleased to hear your questions in French. I'd like to thank the committee for this opportunity to present to you today.