Public Safety committee  Nuclear installations are federally regulated. Hence, we were proposing amendments that will allow this federal approach to ensuring that the nuclear installations—high-security sites across Canada—have efficient and effective nuclear security programs in place. Because it's federally legislated, then we apply this federal approach.

Public Safety committee  There are some nuclear security officers who have peace officer status in some provinces at the provincial level. What we're trying to achieve here is to have a consistent, federal, uniform approach, so that all the installations across Canada will have peace officer status at the federal level.

Public Safety committee  Thank you for giving the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission the opportunity to respond to your questions. I'd like to make a general statement with respect to the proposed amendments to the Nuclear Safety and Control Act. This is to put in place better clarity on an already existing scheme that we have in place for the security of nuclear facilities across Canada.