Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Industry is giving us the next chapter in the Liberal program of do as we say, not as we do.
Canadians were hoping for a forward looking science and technology strategy to create good long term jobs. Indeed they were hoping for some form of tax relief to spur investment growth in the emerging technologies. Instead, last year the Liberals killed the Tory defence industry productivity program, DIPP, and now they present a $250 million business subsidy dressed up as a non-subsidy. Call it son of DIPP.
Can the minister tell us how giving people back their own money and calling it not a subsidy is better than lowering taxes?