Gary Goodyear at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On November 29th, 2012. See this statement in context.

November 29th, 2012 / 12:25 p.m.

Conservative

Gary Goodyear Conservative Cambridge, ON

I can tell you that our government has invested more in science and technology, in real dollars, than any government in the history of this country. That includes an $8 billion increase in new funding, as you would know. Some of that funding, as I mentioned earlier to our other colleague—$200 million for IRAP, the industrial research program—was a short-term, temporary stimulus funding.

Overall, I would say to you that science and technology has been strongly committed to by this budget. The numbers—

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