Mr. Speaker, Manitoba welcomes the Cangene Corporation's decision to open its new health biotechnology research and development facility in Winnipeg, not England, thanks to a $3 million repayable loan from the western diversification program.
This program illustrates the commitment of the federal government to advance the economic prosperity of the western and northern regions of Canada.
It is a facility like Cangene's that ensures the creation of jobs for Manitobans, old and young alike.
Manitobans, therefore, find it difficult to understand that another political party has, as its policy, the dismantling of the western diversification program.
The constituents of Winnipeg North—St. Paul salute the federal government for its commitment to sustain this program for Canada's western and northern regions, thereby strengthening our social union as a federation.