This is a very small thing: I'd love to see the source of the 30,000 jobs statistic—where it comes from. I don't need it today, but perhaps one of your officials could offer it later.
What you just said about the conversation you haven't had with Mr. Smitherman is interesting--that Ontario wanted to have a conversation about support for their bid through a taxpayer subsidy. That conversation hasn't happened. What I've been trying to understand, in terms of the state of the nation involving the nuclear industry here in Canada, is that the government announced that a privatization option is on the table. That created a certain amount of uncertainty, to which you just alluded, that was involved in the Ontario bid's not going forward. My concern is that in this uncertain environment, the price Canadian taxpayers are going to get for our investment over the years would naturally be less than it would in a certain environment.
My point is this. You've mentioned the word “renaissance”, which is thrown around a fair amount in nuclear promotion circles. There are 130-plus new builds going on in the world, and AECL has none of them. It's in this discussion about potentially privatizing and yet is not in a conversation with the bidder for the only potential bid on the table, which is Ontario, about you folks possibly kicking in some money to make it happen, thereby raising the price Canadians might get for AECL.
It seems like a strange conundrum we've locked ourselves into here. Am I wrong in my reading of this?