Mr. Speaker, it is essential that we offer opportunities to our best and brightest to keep them in this country, to keep young people coming out of universities in Canada. To that end, in the most recent budget the government increased substantially our investment in health research.
We announced our intention to create the Canadian institutes of health research and over the next three years to effectively double the amount of money we spend on health research. There will be $225 million for the new research institutes over the next three years; $50 million in addition for the national health, research and development fund; $35 million to the Canadian health services research foundation; and $25 million—