Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Natural Resources. Following the recent budget, the Minister of Natural Resources advised the board of directors of the Canadian Centre for Magnetic Fusion, which runs the tokamak facility for the development of fusion located in Varennes, that the federal government was cutting off its funding on March 31, 1997.
Does the minister realize, and I hope she does, that by withdrawing funding of $7.2 million from the Varennes tokamak, she will be depriving Quebec of the only major long term energy research project that might benefit the province?