Marc Garneau at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On May 5th, 2009. See this statement in context.

May 5th, 2009 / 3:55 p.m.

Liberal

Marc Garneau Liberal Westmount—Ville-Marie, QC

I appreciate that clarification.

I have some charts here that are from Statistics Canada that show that as of 2005, the federal funding for university research for natural sciences and in engineering and social sciences research--inflation-adjusted in 2002 dollars--has been actually decreasing since 2005. This is Statistics Canada information.

Would you agree with the fact that if one adjusts for inflation, the actual amount of money that has been allocated to NSERC and SSHRC has decreased?

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