I am personally committed to ensuring the highest level of openness and transparency in all aspects of our work. Ensuring openness and transparency means we must be accountable. We must be open to scrutiny and actively seek input from our diverse audience of stakeholders on how we can do a better job. The CNSC must always operate with the public interest in mind. However, we must always balance this goal with the need for security, personal privacy, corporate confidentiality and our international obligations.
Efforts are already under way within the CNSC to address concerns about openness and transparency.
For example, we have made progress in producing regulatory documents setting out the requirements by which licensees will be assessed. Our aim is to make CNSC regulations and requirements transparent and predictable to staff, licensees and the public. We will continue to solicit input from industry and all of our stakeholders for improving our regulatory documents. In order to spearhead and manage these processes, we have recently established the position of Executive Director, Regulatory Affairs. I am pleased to announce that Mr. Mike Taylor, the CNSC's current Deputy Director General of our Directorate of Reactor Regulation, will begin in this position on April 30.