Mr.

I do not believe that this proposal as outlined will solve any of the problems associated with nuclear waste in Canada.  The cost will continue to escalate more and more.  What this proposal implies is that the radioactive nuclear waste will not be contained and will in truth create a sacrifice zone that will effectively remove this region from any measure of certainty or stability for millenia.

Secondly, we should be stopping the production of nuclear waste rather than superficially assuming that we have a secure place to store it for millenia.  And with the intent seen by current governments to create even more waste, we will be looking for other sacrifice zones in other parts of this country.  And other countries will surely be calling to send their waste to our country as their citizens like ours do not want it anywhere in their country.

Thirdly, the stability of this planet as we go about creating climate change rather than stopping it, we have already seen unheard or unseen consequences so far and more will be coming if we don't stop this runaway train.  And nuclear power is not the solution.

Fourthly, the simplistic notion that we will be able to solve the problems of nuclear waste in as short a period of 160 years boggles the mind about how naive this proposal suggests.  Yes, it is longer than the timeframe of most politicians but is not something that can be ensured to proceed without problems and catastrophic consequences.  And once we begin down this path, there is no way of going back and fixing it once it collapses and fails.

And lastly, and is most important in today's world, there must be full informed and prior consent given to this by our Indigenous peoples of this land.  Just in the same way that we should not be building pipelines through Indigenous lands and lands that we poorly negotiated in the past, we need to fix this broken system of colonialism and adventure capitalism before it truly destroys what is precious in this land and planet, the life on this planet.

I therefor reject the project outright and the twenty years of so of this conversation should be stopped and we should begin the dialogue of how to stop producing nuclear waste and not create an even bigger problem in the future.