The Department of Agriculture has research stations. The value of those research stations is that for every dollar that is spent, there is a 34:1 return on investment on those research dollars. Agriculture is one in nine jobs in Canada. It is one of our largest, if not the largest, exports and GDP developers in our economy. Those research stations, because of the work they do in scaling up crops, provide, as has been verified by the University of Saskatchewan and other universities, that figure of 34:1, yet you're cutting there.
Agriculture Canada is hitting that 15% reduction. We are shutting down the Indian Head research station, the Scott research station and the Lacombe research station. There are cuts to other research stations across the country. You as the President of the Treasury Board are trying to obviously get spending under control, yet the only department that can brag about having a real return on investment for taxpayers and getting value out of the work it's doing is the one that's having the most devastating cuts. Does that make sense to you?
