I'll just finish my point on that by saying this: we can avoid this type of situation in the future if members take the time to do better research before they ask questions and then correct the record when they make mistakes. As a government, on our side, this is a tool that we have at our disposal—when we're in a situation like this—to actually correct the record. There is this inaccurate information put forward time and time again in question period. It's put forward in a news release and left up on the website, and at some point that record has to be corrected, and that's what has happened today.
I'm going to move off that now, though, and get on to a question actually about the institute.
I imagine for all of us, when we're meeting with constituents, especially in this era where getting the budget back to balance is a priority for many Canadians, they might look at $50 million and say it is a lot of money to be spending.
If you were sitting at a round table with my constituents and that question came up, what would you say to them about the benefit that the average Canadian taxpayer gets—not a Canadian researcher or someone actually at the Perimeter Institute, but the average Canadian taxpayer. What benefit do they get out of this expenditure?