Mr. Speaker, the hon. member's question gives me an opportunity to again tell the House that we recently funded 3,750 researchers to do exactly that: curiosity-driven research in fields such as botany, zoology, physics, mathematics, earth sciences, and the list goes on and on.
I also had the opportunity last Friday to announce almost $70 million for social sciences and humanities research for 92 different research teams across the country.
This week, I was in Montreal announcing another--