Mr. Speaker, Canadians thought or at least assumed that medical or health research was already being done by the Medical Research Council, or at least that is what the Medical Research Council was supposed to do. Now the Liberals are creating the new research institute called the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to do probably the same job and same work as the Medical Research Council was supposed to do.
Why are we reinventing this wheel? Can the member shed some light on this and answer this question? Why was the previous organization not doing its job properly and why is the new organization expected to do the same job in a better way?