Madam Speaker, the member for Frontenac began by talking about how lucky I am as the member for Guelph-Wellington. He is quite right, I am. However, we are all lucky to live in this wonderful country. I would like to put that on the record.
The member for Frontenac wanted to talk about research and development. The federal government will be maintaining excellent research infrastructure in Quebec which will have four of the national centres of excellence; Lennoxville, Saint-Hyacinthe, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu and Saint-Croix. We will transfer 53 research positions from the national capital region to these centres, enabling our scientists to concentrate on research areas of high priority to Quebec producers and processors as well as to producers across eastern Canada and the whole country.
We are all lucky to live in Canada and to enjoy the support of the federal government, including Quebec.