Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Industry.
Yesterday, the Minister of Industry stated here in the House that he intended to review DIPP next year. For the first time, the minister appeared open to the opposition's arguments that the ability of Canadian and Quebec companies in the defence and aerospace industry to develop technology must not be eroded.
Will the minister admit that we urgently need to re-establish DIPP budgets, in order to keep our aerospace industry as competitive as it currently is with foreign companies, which are heavily subsidized by their governments for the research and marketing of their products?