Mr. Speaker, this week, I had the pleasure of taking part in the 81st convention of the Association francophone pour le savoir.
Nearly 5,000 researchers exchanged ideas on the role of science in our society and the importance of French-language research, unified in the belief that science will help us build a better world.
Meanwhile, the Conservative government is attacking basic research, muzzling its scientists and dismantling Canada's only oceanography library serving the French-speaking scientific community.
Furthermore, it seems that the research priorities of the National Research Council of Canada will be dictated by industry from now on, based on immediate commercial interests. No more basic research or research for the public interest.
Canadians have had enough of this backward-thinking government.