Mr. Speaker, we will vote against their budgets every single time they cut basic science, and we will keep doing it.
I would like to remind the government that it is the National Research Council, not the commercial application council.
For the Conservatives, if research has no immediate commercial viability, they do not consider it worth doing, but the fact is that many revolutionary scientific advancements that benefit people today, such as the human genome project, started as basic scientific research.
How can the Conservatives be so short-sighted? How can they turn their backs on important research that will now go unfinished?