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Natural Resources committee Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, members of the committee, for this opportunity to meet with you today. The recent events surrounding the nuclear facility at Chalk River and their impact on the supply of medical isotopes has raised a lot of questions among Canadians. Canad
January 29th, 2008Committee meeting
Linda Keen
Natural Resources committee Thank you very much for the question. Well, of course, I was preparing to come to the committee on the 16th and very much looking forward to this. About 8 o'clock I went home. The staff were still putting some materials together, copies of the presentation, because I had a prese
January 29th, 2008Committee meeting
Linda Keen
Natural Resources committee I actually have in front of me the letter I received. It goes on for a number of pages. It has a lot of “whereases”. There's one “whereas” that is applicable, I believe, to the question: Whereas, the President of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission failed to take the necessa
January 29th, 2008Committee meeting
Linda Keen
Natural Resources committee As I spoke to in my presentation, the Nuclear Safety and Control Act is a new act relative to much legislation of this type around the world, and it doesn't specify this in terms of the supply. We had opinions by our legal services some time before of what the act covered. We've
January 29th, 2008Committee meeting
Linda Keen
Natural Resources committee No, Mr. Chair. I have no understanding of that because economic factors are not to be included in the decision. The decisions of the commission are to be about health, safety, and the protection of the environment. And that's what the legislation tells us to consider when we give
January 29th, 2008Committee meeting
Linda Keen
Natural Resources committee Mr. Chair, no, I do not know of any regulator of that type. Since I was the president of the Convention on Nuclear Safety, which included all the world's countries with safety organizations, I have a very good idea of what is the international standard. And I was president of t
January 29th, 2008Committee meeting
Linda Keen
Natural Resources committee Mr. Chairman, I think there are two aspects to the question from the honourable member. First of all, as I indicated in my letter of January 8 to the minister, I strongly believed that the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission was an independent organization and that we knew what
January 29th, 2008Committee meeting
Linda Keen
Natural Resources committee Mr. Chair, that's correct.
January 29th, 2008Committee meeting
Linda Keen
Natural Resources committee Yes, I'm quite well aware of what's going on around the world. Yes.
January 29th, 2008Committee meeting
Linda Keen
Natural Resources committee Mr. Chair, I probably should seek to clarify. The hospitals that were phoning us were all licensees of ours. Their licence could have specified a certain isotope, and in one case there was a company that wanted to import generators, etc. What they would be doing is phoning us sa
January 29th, 2008Committee meeting
Linda Keen
January 29th, 2008Committee meeting
Linda Keen
Natural Resources committee I don't have those details with me, and unfortunately, because I'm not the president, I no longer can bring staff into this. That would be a question to the commission. But it would have been around that same time period, that really compressed week.
January 29th, 2008Committee meeting
Linda Keen
Natural Resources committee This would have started probably the week of the 10th and 11th, when they really were seeking alternatives.
January 29th, 2008Committee meeting
Linda Keen
Natural Resources committee My concern was that on the December 8 phone call that Minister Lunn requested—he requested this phone call, and I arranged for one of my staff to be with me on the phone call—it was the belief of both myself and the person on that phone call that the minister was telling us that
January 29th, 2008Committee meeting
Linda Keen
Natural Resources committee Yes. In my letter of January 8, I specifically said I would be willing to subject myself to a review of my performance by an independent or international group.
January 29th, 2008Committee meeting
Linda Keen