Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Natural Resources.
The minister said recently in the House that a readjustment of her priorities was behind the closure of the Canadian centre for magnetic fusion in Varennes, one of the rare federal investments in research in Quebec. At the same time, the minister maintained funding for the ambitious research project of the neutrino lab in Sudbury, Ontario.
Can the minister explain why the Ontario project found favour with her while the sole financial involvement of the federal government in a long term energy research program in Quebec was cut?