Thank you.
I would like to speak in favour of Mr. Allen's motion. It's my understanding that AECL is still under review. While we've had the one decision on the MAPLE reactors come down, as a whole there is a review under way. To have the study done before the outcome of the review might make these work in contradiction to one another.
But what we do have today are the increasing energy costs in the petroleum industry. Just today there was an announcement in the news warning that the provinces who use gas as a means to produce electricity are going to have to let their customers know that there are going to be greatly increasing costs.
So with that in mind, I think it's incumbent upon this committee to focus on what is going to be an urgent situation, especially this coming winter, for our fixed income people, and to explore alternative means of energy. This is what is going to be the difference, literally, between buying groceries and not buying groceries for some families.
So I would again support Mr. Allen's motion.