What is safe? How do we decide what actions are safe enough? When does a reasonable risk veer into an unreasonable one? Who makes this decision? In the case of the use of nuclear energy and substances in Canada, these questions fall to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.
Remarks by Rumina Velshi at the NEA Workshop on the Management of Spent Fuel, Radioactive Waste and Decommissioning in SMRs or Advanced Reactor Technologies
For the past several months, I have been travelling across Canada—to more than two dozen cities and towns—to meet with Canadian workers and Canadian businesses. I visited an auto parts manufacturer in Etobicoke, a potash mine outside Saskatoon, and the women and men in Sherbrooke who make the boots our Armed Forces wear around the world. I visited the Port of Saint John in New Brunswick, and a family farm in Olds, Alberta.
On November 1, 2022, Rumina Velshi, CNSC President and CEO, delivered a virtual keynote address at the International Conference on Disruptive, Innovative and Emerging Technologies (DIET) in the Nuclear Industry.
Now, unions know—the Boilermakers know, the AFL knows—that good economic policy means policy that is good, first and foremost, for workers. Policy that maintains and creates good jobs for people here in Alberta and across the country and puts them to work building an economy that works for everyone.
The remarkable work being done by companies like this one can help to power the world and create the good jobs of today and tomorrow—for workers here in Quebec and across Canada.
Our auto workers are some of the most talented, and innovative, and resilient in the world. Project Arrow, the first fully made-in-Canada electric vehicle behind me, there is a little sneak peek right there, is a perfect example of that.