Mr. Speaker, I rise today to share a major medical breakthrough. TRIUMF, Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics, successfully met and exceeded the challenge to deliver a new way to create medical isotopes without using nuclear uranium. This discovery completely changes the production and availability of medical isotopes in Canada and around the world. In 2010, our government invested $35 million to facilitate this research, with an additional $25 million in 2012. This investment helped TRIUMF achieve this success three years earlier than its 2016 target date.
This is just one example of our government's real support for science, technology and research. We have increased funding by $8 billion, more than any other government in the history of Canada. Our government's focus and hard work on our economy and jobs makes this a Canadian success story. This one company has grown from 15 to 76 high-paying, high-quality jobs, making this story an important part of the one million net new jobs we have created since 2009.