Mr. Speaker, let us talk about the jobs of tomorrow.
Venture capital is critical in financing private sector research and in Canada it is drying up. The Business Development Bank of Canada warns that we could lose hundreds of innovative small companies in their infancy. To quote a senior VP: “It breaks my heart because if we let go of these technology companies, once this recession is over you will have lost all this [new] technology, you will have lost a decade”.
What are the Conservatives doing about this? Do they know that they are saying no to the jobs of tomorrow?