Very quickly, again, an example is Saskatoon. Your federal government has put in highways to get to Saskatoon. Also there's the synchrotron there. There is now a scientific part there, so when private companies are setting up it's easier to track scientists. There are auditors. There are assistants, technical people. There is a critical mass. The private sector can access the building that's there. There are libraries. Everything that the federal government puts up the private sector can reap benefits from. So from every dollar that's spent on federal capital--just the building, the synchrotron, and the scientific part of it that's there--the private companies will get a 17% positive economic benefit.
On February 14th, 2008. See this statement in context.