The Canadian Foundation for Innovation funds the infrastructure or the tools for research. Our experience over the last 10 years has shown that these tools have really helped to attract researchers to Canada. The new challenge is to keep them here. Our investment has been considerable and we must be able to sustain it. We have a lot of statistics that tell us that attracting and retaining people depends a good deal on the tools we use and on having laboratories on the cutting edge of technology. This helps with their training so that they go into industry afterwards.
On May 1st, 2008. See this statement in context.