Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to thank the committee for this opportunity to share my perspectives on disruptive technologies. These are rooted in my 38-year career, first as a scientist, and then as an executive of science and technology organizations and programs that, in one

Industry committee  I've observed that companies that succeed today have two types of individuals. They have deep subject matter experts. They also have people with the skills to look in an integrated way at how ideas come together to make a difference. The space of entrepreneurship tends to be on t

Industry committee  Ms. Gallant, if I had an answer to that, I'd probably be a rich man. Let me say that among the issues that are out there, I believe one is that the tendency is for government to be engaged in a discussion of funding science, but there's another discussion around government bein

Industry committee  Thank you for that question here. This plays a bit to the theme I've tried to pull on. Disruptive technologies have, ideally, very positive effects on societies. Much of what we try to do, governments with industry, is to maximize proactively the potential for that constructive

Industry committee  Thank you for that. CNL knows hydrogen intimately. The origin of that, of course, is in our development of the CANDU reactor, which is based on the use of a particular isotope of hydrogen called deuterium in heavy water, which is used for moderating the reactors, the chain react

Industry committee  There are two sides to that. Again, I come back to a comment made by one of my colleagues here that we have many start-ups in Canada. The challenge we have is turning companies into sizable companies. It's getting over that threshold of size and market access. I also think at t

Industry committee  Thank you for that. One of the attributes we often associate with disruptive technology is that it occurs quickly. All of a sudden it's there, it's visible, and we're now aware of it. Some of my remarks were to suggest that there's often a very long gestation for it. Our G-7 lea

Industry committee  Thank you for the question. The nuclear industry is an industry that is highly innovative. Many of the reactors in operation around the world today are first- and second-generation technologies. The ones on the drawing board are fourth-generation technologies that deal with fun

Industry committee  That might be a question that's directed at me.

Industry committee  Perhaps that was my remark.

Industry committee  Thank you for the question. I put this in the category of some of those grand challenges that industries are facing with technologies that address big social issues. The social issue here is not the DGR; it's how to provide clean, safe, reliable energy at scale. Nuclear technolog

Industry committee  I would build on the comment here that the leap into the future says the world will speed up. The policies and the safety, security, ethical, and regulatory challenges that will face government are already speeding up. They're going to speed up. They're going to get more complex.

Industry committee  I come back to say, how is it that government gets better at anticipating the policy and regulatory challenges we're going to experience? I believe the dialogue that you've been having here has given you an insight as to what's coming. Government's approach has typically been nat