Hon. Claudette Tardif (Deputy Leader of the Opposition):

Madam Leader, the Canadian government recently provided $190 million in grants to attract 19 internationally renowned scientists to Canada.

Canada may have succeeded in attracting 19 outstanding scientists but it is difficult to imagine that it will keep them in the long term because laboratories are closing. Professors and researchers are being let go and university class sizes are increasing across the country.

Can the Leader of the Government in the Senate indicate how the government will ensure that this initiative will benefit the Canadian scientific community as a whole and its individual components?

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