Corey Tochor
- Political Experience
- Elected to the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan in 2011, re-elected in 2016. Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan from May 17, 2016 to January 5, 2018. MP for Saskatoon—University since 2019.
- Notable
- Born in 1976 or 1977.
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Corey Tochor won with 23,178 votes (48.9%)
Total votes cast: 47,425
It wouldn't be in Canada, though. Is that not right? The refinement is not going to be done in Canada.
I welcome you to put in a submission and a written brief on how that project was stalled and the net results for our Canadian economy. You spoke about the importance of the value of Canadian natural resources such as uranium. It's a crucial element of the free-world strategy for energy security from hostile foreign powers. How does uranium fit into our position with allies around the world?
We're going the other way. Is that in the layering on of regulations?
Where would that uranium come from? For the SMRs that the Liberals are planning, where would that be refined?
That's a problem for us going forward.
On all the European countries that you named, and they're all the ones that are NATO allies, has the CNA presented the Liberal government's idea that some of those costs for the nuclear industry, and what we provide to our allies, should be included in our 2% NATO spend?
Maybe I'll give a real-world example for our community to understand how this has hurt us. Denison Mines in Saskatchewan just got approved. Could you unpack a little bit the timelines that project faced and how that might highlight why we need these changes so much?
I'll go back to how we stack up on nuclear with some of our allies around the world. How do we stack up on regulatory timelines compared to the States?
I just toured McMaster University. It has a great facility that's working on radiopharma and some of the breakthroughs. Similar to how you described it, as an 80% worsening of regulations that the Liberals enacted in the last 10 years, on radiopharma there's also a thickening of the regulations and a lack of support for that industry. Can you highlight radiopharma and medical isotopes, what they [more]
Speaking of small modular reactors, you talked about the Canadian supply chain. What has the more complete Canadian supply chain, the CANDU reactor or the SMRs that are being built in Darlington?
Thanks to the witnesses and the committee members for being here today. In terms of regulating the nuclear industry in Canada, and the idea of cutting red tape and making regulatory progress on speeding things up, are we on track right now?
For the SMRs, sir, where would that refined uranium come from?