I don't want to dictate to the government what it should do. I can only indicate the needs. In general, we see that, in overall terms, the universities are much less funded in Canada than in the United States. The Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada has documented this situation well. The public contribution to universities has increased by approximately 25% in the United States over the past 25 years, whereas, in Canada, that contribution has fallen by about 25%. So the gap between the United States and us is getting much bigger. The Quebec universities have supported the provincial government on this. One of the factors, and this has been since 1994, is that federal transfers have declined sharply. All kinds of figures are being circulated: $2.2 billion—$3.9 billion in current terms — and so on.
I'm simply saying that it is imperative that the universities be properly funded because the future of our country is at stake. The $2.2 billion figure is the amount necessary to restore funding to its 1994 level. For the province of Quebec, that represents $550 million.