Environment committee  Thank you. Chair, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today on behalf of the Canadian nuclear industry. Reaching Canada's 2050 net-zero target is going to require a paradigm shift in how we approach the production, distribution, and use of e

Environment committee  You're right. The CANDU technology—a Canadian technology—matured in the seventies and was exported to seven nations around the world. We continue to do refurbishment on those, and we have new build opportunities in places like Romania. What's important to know is that through the

International Trade committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I thank all of you for the opportunity to speak with you today. I'd like to begin by acknowledging that the land on which we gather is the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabe people. I'm here to speak on the importance of our count

International Trade committee  Thank you very much for the question, MP Arya. Yes, I do see tremendous opportunity for private investment in the nuclear sector. In particular, we see this opportunity coming up in small modular reactors. Small modular reactors are a different business case from the large reac

International Trade committee  I would agree with Ms. Kwan that what we really need to achieve here is a parity between the U.S. and Canada as we go through this clean energy transition. Ms. Kwan used the word “synchronization”; I think that also applies here in terms of regulatory treatment and other measures

International Trade committee  That's a very important point. That is around the need for consistency in the government's treatment of any clean technology that it is relying on for a net-zero future. In particular, as you pointed out, there's been a lot of inconsistency around the way that the various departm

International Trade committee  I would say that there is growing recognition here in Canada and around the world that we are going to have to dramatically increase the amount of clean electricity that is being produced so that we can switch fuels in various sectors to decarbonize them. Most knowledgeable folks

International Trade committee  I do believe that if the government were able to send a strong signal before the budget about what its intention is in terms of levelling up with what the United States has achieved with the IRA, it would give all of the sectors needed to make this clean energy transition happen

International Trade committee  You're right. The medical science part of the nuclear sector is often overlooked because of discussions around nuclear power, but the fact is that Canada is absolutely a world leader in the production of life-saving medical isotopes. It's not just the 70% of cobalt that we provid

International Trade committee  The great potential for small modular reactors has to do with how scalable the reactors are. They can be so small as to fit on the back of a truck and be delivered to a northern community, a first nations community, or they can be large, and they're providing electricity. Their

International Trade committee  There are several things we have to watch very closely. I call them bottleneck issues. One of them is common to any build-out of major infrastructure, and that is the speed to get approvals for siting and building out infrastructure. That applies to nuclear power. It just is taki

International Trade committee  This question keeps me up at night. I think there is a very significant underappreciation of the sheer amount of electricity infrastructure that we're going to have to build out over the next 30 years or so. It's being reflected in underestimations by the provinces and by their

International Trade committee  There's a growing consensus that there is no cost-effective pathway to net zero without significant amounts of nuclear energy. That's certainly true here at home, but globally.... That's not to say that nuclear is a panacea or silver bullet. It's going to require every bit of exi