Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Natural Resources. In the last budget, the government said it would no longer fund the magnetic fusion centre in Varennes, without holding any consultations with Quebec, which provides 50 per cent of the money allocated to this program.
Since only 15 per cent of her department's budgets for energy research and development are spent in Quebec, how can the minister hit Quebec with more cuts, when we know that her department has always favoured Ontario Hydro, which is practically the only beneficiary of federal assistance in the area of nuclear energy?