Mr. Speaker, the federal government is using funds left over from the recent APEC conference to grant $4 million for the new international centre for dialogue in Vancouver at Simon Fraser University's downtown campus. It will be a world conference centre for specialized professional and academic scientific reunions. It will have the most advanced state of the art communications and translation facilities.
The new centre will not merely commemorate the APEC reunion in Vancouver. It will also symbolize Vancouver's role as North America's prime gateway to the Pacific and a world metropolis for the 21st century.