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Natural Resources committee That's correct, Mr. Chair.
January 29th, 2008Committee meeting
Linda Keen
Natural Resources committee Yes, Mr. Chair. In fact, I had not had any communication with the minister for over a year before this event.
January 29th, 2008Committee meeting
Linda Keen
Natural Resources committee Mr. Chair, just to clarify, on December 5 it was a phone call during office hours. There were a number of staff there. The minister started that phone call by saying, “Well, I guess AECL has dropped the ball, haven't they?” He just said, “Can you tell me something about what's go
January 29th, 2008Committee meeting
Linda Keen
Natural Resources committee Thank you very much for the question, Mr. Chair. There were actually three comments in there, but I'll deal with the last, which is a question. The Significant Development Report was reporting the state of risk to people and risk to the environment because of the situation that
January 29th, 2008Committee meeting
Linda Keen
Natural Resources committee Mr. Chair, there are two aspects there. First of all, radiation protection of people--the staff, the people in communities, the general public, in clinics--is the responsibility of the CNSC, and the CNSC has expert staff who are part of international organizations. The Internatio
January 29th, 2008Committee meeting
Linda Keen
Natural Resources committee It's absolutely correct, Mr. Chair, that we recently put staff on site because of the significant regulatory oversight issues that we have had on that site. So it actually was a response to the ongoing difficult, complex regulatory oversight needed at that site. When the licence
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
Natural Resources committee I have raised the issue of the problems that arise when a licensee and a regulator report to the same minister. I've repeatedly raised this with ministers and deputies as they've changed and I've done the briefing. In fact, this had been the source of several private members' bil
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