Tim Hodgson: “If Canada is serious about expanding nuclear energy, we must also be serious about safe, responsible, long-term…”

If our goal is to double our grid and build a low-carbon economy in less than 25 years, there is no credible plan to do that without nuclear energy and the clean, reliable baseload power it provides.

When we use energy more wisely, we reduce pressures on supplies, we make our systems more reliable, we protect people and businesses from volatility and disruption.

Starting construction [shows] that we will never compromise our energy security and affordability as we build out exports of the world's lowest-carbon LNG.

Over the last eight months, we have been steadily delivering on each commitment in the Canada-Alberta MOU, working with Alberta and the energy industry to build major energy infrastructure, reduce emissions, create jobs and prosperity and…