Mr. Speaker, great advances have been made over the last number of years with regard to carbon capture and sequestration.
I have had the opportunity to go out to Bells Corners and witness some of NRCan's best and brightest. They work hand in glove with our people in the mining sector. They work with the people in Xstrata who are developing this project. I would like to see that.
However when $148 million is cut from research and technology, what we are doing going forward is handcuffing the best and the brightest. We are handcuffing those who do the research that makes it commercially viable to bring this science forward so we can in turn sell it around the world and again become a leader.
It is no time to back off the throttle now with that type of research. We should be at the fore of this particular industry.