Madam Speaker, the budget has been dubbed a security budget. I think it is true that it is a superb security budget, but it is a lot more than just a security budget.
Let us take, for example, a couple of the major infrastructure provisions: $2 billion for a strategic infrastructure foundation; and another $600 million over five years for new border infrastructure items, which is very important. I will ask the member for Yukon about that in a moment.
There is a lot more to the budget than I think a lot of the speakers this afternoon realize, particularly the speakers from the opposition side. They gloss over or totally ignore the other things in this budget: $1 billion over the next three years to promote leading edge research and sustain Canada's innovative use of the Internet; a $200 million investment to help Canadian universities; a 7% increase in the annual budget of the granting councils; a $25 million investment over five years to sustain and enhance the research program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research; $24 million over two years to support sector councils. I could go on and on.
There is a lot more to the budget than security. I think the reason this budget, as the other ones have been in the past, has been so well received and popular with Canadians is that it is fair, it is balanced and it contains a lot for most Canadians.
On the item of infrastructure, does the hon. member for Yukon not find it important that infrastructure has been included this way in the budget? It is important to his territory, I am sure.