Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague from Westmount—Ville-Marie for pointing out the woeful and unfortunate absence of vision on the part of the Conservative government when it comes to a technology-based future economy for Canada.
I want to ask a question about the brain drain. The brain drain affects not just Canada's future prospects, but today's economy as well.
We had a visitor from the MITACS centre of excellence regarding advanced science, Dr. Gupta, who estimates that $500 million of investment in post-secondary education and science students is lost each year through students going to the United States because the opportunities are greater there than here.
Would my colleague please comment on the impact of that kind of loss going into the United States as a result of the Conservatives' current budget and policies?