Mr. Speaker, Quebec receives more than its share of research and development funding. The figures quoted by the Leader of the Opposition assume that money spent within the national capital area only benefits Ontario, while in my riding, I have 1,700 people who work in research and development institutions on the Ottawa side.
This is the wrong way to look at spending. In fact, when we exclude the National Capital area, we see that nearly 30 per cent of research and development spending goes to Quebec, which represents only 24.9 per cent of the population.