Mr. Speaker, using smoke and mirrors, the government claims to support Canada's students and researchers but it is paying $90 million in new graduate scholarships by cutting $148 million in research grants. It is not an increase. It is a cut.
Thanks to the Liberal support for the budget, the Conservatives have overruled arm's length agencies for their own ideological purposes. This is an attack on academic freedom.
When did the government decide that it knows better than the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada which projects should get funding and which should not?