Thank you.
Well, if that's the game the government wants to play on this, I'll play, no problem.
It has been clear that the member for Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie was never impeding the good work of the Perimeter Institute, and neither is the NDP. That has to be very clear. If you look at Hansard and his interventions in the House, you see that he says he's talking about the Perimeter Institute, “which is an excellent institute, by the way,” and he follows up with another question that mentions it does “excellent work and we salute them”. He says, “Personally, I love the study of particles and...the superstring theory”. That I actually like as well and actually study on a personal basis the theory of relativity and advanced physics.
So there's no question for the NDP that the Perimeter Institute is a good institute that does good work. What the member for Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie was trying to say is that according to the parliamentary budget director, there are some accounting issues with the way the government is presenting the numbers. Those numbers have been tabled and hopefully will be shown. I will be more than happy to table as well the copies of Hansard—obviously in both languages—on this.
So on this matter, I think it's wrong to say that the NDP is impinging on or giving a bad name to the Perimeter Institute, because we acknowledge the good work the institute does. We know of the work it does and we certainly hope it will survive, live on, and do great work in the future.
What has been raised by the NDP in the House and here as well is accounting practices. We're not going to say that those practices are wrong, but if you're looking through the database of the parliamentary budget director, it shows that there are discrepancies in the accounting methods that are used. This is the point that has been raised. This is the point I would be raising. This is the point that people continue to raise. This is why we're not removing the press release: because the press release is accurate in the sense that the accounting methods used, as noted by the parliamentary budget director, seem to have some problems.