Mr. Speaker, the member opposite just does not get it. Research is our future and the Government of Canada should be putting some money into it. As my colleague said, it is not enough to put money into buildings and infrastructure. That is part of it, but the dollars have to go into the knowledge capacity to do research into the future for the long term.
I am the agriculture critic, and I have to tell the member opposite that the government is failing in agriculture research as well. In this area we are benefiting today from the research that was actually done in the 1970s and the 1980s. That is how long some research takes.
Does the government just not understand that if we are going to attract the best and the brightest from around the world, we need to have a long-term commitment? Researchers are not necessarily attracted by salaries. They have to be paid salaries equivalent to other areas, but they will follow the dollars in terms of knowledge discovery so they can be a part of something happening.
The Conservative government is absolutely failing in this regard and the member should admit it.