Rural Ontario home and transport route

I am a member of Nuclear Waste Watch (NWW) in northern Ontario, but my comments do not necessarily reflect details of their positions.

In summary, NWW pointed out on several occasions the lack of trust by many, not only NWW, in Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) as a "captured regulator". Too many conflicts of interest and past lapses create no confidence in CNSC being able to carry out its roles.
NWW believes that storing and management of nuclear waste in situ at or near the sites of nuclear power plants in far preferable to transporting those materials over public roads, rail or by other means such as air or on water craft. Proposals by Dr. Gordon Edwards President of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (See https://wp.ccnr.org/) about permanent storage and management, made to various government hearings, public meetings, in videos and so forth outline what ought to be done, available at their website - ccnr.org.
General environmental protections given in the document provided may, in many instances, apply to nuclear waste as well. The recent court proceeding that ruled certain proposed powers of the federal government were unconstitutional drew attention to the powers of the provinces to deal with nuclear and non-nuclear issues. NWW would point out that if there has been a systematic review of the powers, policies and practices of the provinces and the territories to see if they are consistent and sufficient to deal with the complexities of the myriad topics and issues, NWW is unaware of it. As an one EXAMPLE among many, is there a common understanding among the sub-federal levels of government of the definition of a wetland? Are the places of wetlands in public policy across Canada common and consistent. Are wetland policies based on accurate and accepted science or are they subject to political and economic pressure to favour the corporations that damage and degrade them, or that promise to resurrect them to conditions identical to that before project development - likely an impossible promise to keep?
NWW requests that strict attention be drawn to the kinds of expertise required to carry out tasks related to our previous commentaries made throughout the years and how to find or otherwise attract those who do not suffer from conflicts of interest arising from the dominance of private industry involved in the nuclear fields. Underfunded and fragmented research projects in universities, colleges, institutes and so forth, along with those conducted by private individuals with applicable and unconditional credentials, certainly help to pry open some fields for examination, but the noted funding and isolation problems cannot hope to even enter, let alone compete, in the policy, practice and decision-making fields related to nuclear power. Uranium mining is under-examined territory. The military aspect of these questions is another huge example.