Mr. Speaker, during the member's speech he gave some figures. I would like to table figures from the Angus Reid poll issued on February 7, when Canadians were asked what they wanted to see the fiscal dividends spent on.
The top priority was health and education, followed by increased programs to create jobs for young people, followed by programs such as home care and pharmacare, followed by new benefit programs for children in low income families, followed by the new scholarship fund to improve access to education, followed by reduction of debt, and then followed by tax reduction. I do not know where the member gets his information from, but this is public.
I have a question for the member. A Statistics Canada report says that in 1995, 11,000 knowledge based persons left Canada but 34,300 knowledge based persons entered Canada. It says there is no brain drain. In fact we have a net addition to the knowledge based manpower in Canada.