Finance committee  This was discussed with Minister Clement. His suggestion was multiple envelopes, which may mean something to you. We were sent off to a couple of other ministries to discuss our impact on them—for example, NRCan. As concerns the national science facilities getting support, I th

Finance committee  We're owned and operated as a joint venture of Canadian universities, so we have a board of management that runs the lab I report to.

Finance committee  Correct. It's on the UBC campus.

Finance committee  TRIUMF has what I would call world-class infrastructure for doing experiments with isotopes. Canadian universities and the international scientific community come here to do their research. Does that answer your question?

Finance committee  We have the existing infrastructure--12 acres on the campus. We're asking in our five-year plan to build a new accelerator that would generate many isotopes for research, but also isotopes that are needed for the medical crisis now.

Finance committee  Well, this is what I would call a made in Canada solution. This is something that came out of TRIUMF. It came out of TRIUMF because of its strength in accelerators. In our view, we are one of the leading accelerator centres in the world, and there is our close collaboration with

Finance committee  I'm relatively familiar.

Finance committee  In terms of assurance, we're the leading rare isotope facility in the world. I mentioned our international peer review. To summarize it, I say that we got an A-plus. I think our technical standing in the world for what we do is well recognized and documented independently. I beli

Finance committee  That's a good question. The answer is, yes, we work with Health Canada also. We are going through a process. Actually, there's the process that we go through with our five-year plan through the National Research Council, Industry Canada, and so on. There's a memorandum to cabin

Finance committee  Short term means less than two years. It's probably about a year in the case of the short term because we have to make modifications to existing cyclotrons in Canada. It's no major infrastructure investment at all. It's really a few tests to demonstrate something we believe we kn

Finance committee  The answer is that we have met with a number of people in Industry Canada. We met with Minister Clement to discuss our proposal. We met with senior civil servants in NRCan to discuss the isotope proposal. So there is interest in what we're doing. I think, as I said, we presente

Finance committee  Well, I've interpreted the government's position as saying that we are not going to subsidize isotopes for the rest of the world. I would like them to say that we are going to worry about isotopes in Canada, and that's what we're trying to address. There are two aspects to that

Finance committee  Good morning. My name is Nigel Lockyer. I'm the director of TRIUMF. TRIUMF is Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics. It was founded 40 years ago by three British Columbia universities and the University of Alberta. Today, it is 11 full-member universities

Natural Resources committee  I'll just make a comment. Canada has that capability now. MDS Nordion used to make generators for moly-99. So even though it goes to the U.S. now, that was a business decision, not a technology decision. They could start making them tomorrow, if you wanted.

Natural Resources committee  I could comment, but I don't know either.