Mr. Speaker, once again, we see the federal government's bad faith in its dealings with Quebec. It deviously forced the closing of the most important energy R and D project in Quebec: the Varennes Tokamak.
The real reasons behind the closing of the Varennes Tokamak are finally clear: members of the Canada-United States interparliamentary group are being urged to bring pressure to bear on the Americans in order to push for Canada, more specifically Ontario, as the site of the future ITER reactor.
The federal government has therefore shut down Quebec's nuclear fusion research project in order to launch a new, infinitely greater fusion program, but this time in Ontario, a province that already enjoys more than 50% of federal R and D funding. If the ITER reactor project comes through, billions of dollars in economic benefits will once again go to Ontario.