Mr. Speaker, we did indeed support the increase in funding for the TRIUMF project, but we had no idea then that you would be cutting in Quebec to make up for it. The president of the Canadian Association of Physicists, Mr. Vincett, has said that the tokamak project had a very high ratio of results to dollars invested and enjoyed an excellent reputation internationally.
In these circumstances, how does the minister explain the sudden difficulty in finding $7 million for the tokamak project? Is it because it is a Quebec project?