In our brief, we urged the government to implement mechanisms that support Canadian economic value creators. Canada needs the champions that some of the SR and ED credits, the R and D credits, which is a good system, are promoting. We look at Research in Motion as a prime example of a Canadian corporation that came from nowhere, x number of years ago, and has become a global leader today. We need more RIMs in this country. So spending on infrastructure directed.... One of our points was that we need to control the spending, as we said, for the various reasons we discussed, but we said that when we're looking at spending we have to direct it, and the direction is towards infrastructure. And within the infrastructure we've talked about R and D because it promotes the Canadian economic value creators and the training.
On April 14th, 2008. See this statement in context.