Maxime Blanchette-Joncas at the Science and Research Committee

On December 5th, 2022. See this statement in context.

December 5th, 2022 / 7 p.m.

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Maxime Blanchette-Joncas Bloc Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques, QC

Thank you, Dr. Gaffield.

You talk about leadership and the fact that Canada must be internationally competitive. Right now, Canada ranks 18th out of 34 OECD countries for research and development expenditure as a percentage of GDP. Canada is also the only G7 nation to have reduced its research and development expenditure from 2000 to 2020.

If the government were to move in a direction, would it be better to invest in ambitious projects or make up for the shortfall of recent years in research and development expenditure?

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