Mr. Speaker, Quebec companies could hope to win contracts, and they did, because there was an office of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited in Montreal. The rest is just promises.
However the federal government can do more than just make promises, when it manages to find the $33 million needed to guarantee the survival of the Triumph project in British Columbia.
How do we explain the fact that the government is unable to find the $7 million needed to guarantee the survival of Tokamak in Varennes, which happens to be the most important hi-tech research project in Quebec? Why could the government not find a mere $7 million?