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

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

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

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

Natural Resources committee  That's not true. That's not true.

Natural Resources committee  When the commission staff were on site they actually looked at the facility, they looked at the backup documents, and they absolutely knew there was an issue here. They gave AECL a set time--I think it was over a week--to justify why this documentation was incorrect. AECL finally

Natural Resources committee  That's correct, Mr. Chair.

Natural Resources committee  That's correct, Mr. Chair.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, Mr. Chair. In fact, I had not had any communication with the minister for over a year before this event.

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

Natural Resources committee  We were the commission, all of the five members--not me, not the staff. In fact, when the December 8 phone call came in, it could have just been another general type of call. On a Saturday it would have been unusual. But there is absolutely no doubt in our mind that we were bein

Natural Resources committee  It wasn't a Saturday.... It wasn't at home...no, let me see. It was exactly at 3:30.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, I was at home.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, Mr. Chair, correct.

Natural Resources committee  Exactly, Mr. Chairman.