Justice committee  Certainly, they must assure that at all times while the nuclear materials are in their possession, they remain in a safe and secure state. There would be requirements to specify, among other things, the level of protection when the materials are in place, as well as transport sec

Justice committee  Sir, that's one of the principles Canada has always acted by. I would suggest that ratifying the two instruments affected by Bill S-9 is an important step towards reaffirming our commitment to be 100% compliant with the international system. As to the physical protection, I want

Justice committee  Thank you for reminding me to respond to that. In the reporter's article there's some allusion to highly secretive operations that would be taking place. In fact, that is just standard security protocol. For shipments of this nature you would not publicize in a paper that this

Justice committee  I'll answer your questions in sequence, and in a moment I'll turn it over to Mr. Awad to talk perhaps about some of the more detailed aspects of security planning for such shipments. To start with, yes we do have a formal manner in which we interact with our partners, so we'll r

Justice committee  They're absolutely safe. The upgraded Canadian security regimes started after the 9/11 events. We have very highly secured facilities. I can't go into a lot of details in an open forum such as this, but suffice it to say that the full range of standard security techniques are put

Justice committee  Thank you, Ms. Boivin. Regardless of the comparison of threats within Canada to those of some of our international partners, we can assure you that all nuclear materials in Canada remain in a safe state and are for strictly peaceful uses. We rely upon some of our partners in th

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee, for the invitation to appear before you today to discuss certain aspects of Bill S-9, the Nuclear Terrorism Act, and how they relate to the mandate of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. I'm accompanied by Mr. Raoul Awad, di