Mr. Speaker, speaking of financial choices, I wonder about the minister's financial logic in this case when we know that shutting down activities at the tokamak facility in Varennes would mean the loss of 20 years of development in the field of fusion and $70 million in infrastructures, including $11 million in new equipment that will never be used, and above all, the loss of approximately one hundred jobs in the high tech field in Quebec.
In the House of Commons on March 20th, 1996. See this statement in context.