Kirsty Duncan at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On April 14th, 2016. See this statement in context.

April 14th, 2016 / 4:40 p.m.

Liberal

Kirsty Duncan Liberal Etobicoke North, ON

I'd like to thank you for the question.

I want to make it clear. During the last decade, we really fell. We fell from third to eighth position in terms of investment in research and development.

I want to be clear. We have excellent researchers, but the investment fell from third to eighth for higher education. When it came to business, the funding of business research and development, it fell from 18th to 26th during the last decade.

What we heard from the three federal granting councils was that they were starved. That's why that $95-million investment in the granting councils is so significant. It's the largest investment in more than a decade.

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