Vincent Ho

Prime Minister Mr. Speaker, under the Liberal government, the immigration system is more out of control than ever. Theclaims that temporary foreign worker number are down by 50%, yet the facts say otherwise. In 2025 alone, approvals hit a staggering 167,000, nearly triple the 60,000 in 2015. At the same time, youth unemployment is surging to 14% , and young Canadians cannot find work. Prime [more]

The Liberal government kept singing the rhetoric that it's going to somehow spend less and invest more, and we're seeing the opposite. It's spending a record $78-billion budget deficit. It doesn't seem like it's making the 15% cuts; it hasn't met that target yet in terms of day-to-day operational spending. Then, on the investing more part, it seems like in this aspect, again, it's doing the [more]

That's really unfortunate. This Liberal government spent $19 billion—that's “billion” with a B—on consultants last year alone. Those consultants aren't doing any research, most likely. At least, it's not the groundbreaking work the folks at BioCanRx are doing. You talked about clinical trials. Can you quantify the downstream impact that these funding cuts could have on patients, particularly [more]

Thank you. Mr. Doyle, we've seen in previous committee meetings that, depending on how you calculate it, there are hundreds of different grant programs for seed and investment and commercialization funding. Do you see the fragmentation in all the paperwork and the administration of those programs as being a barrier? Do you think some consolidation of the bureaucracies could maybe make the [more]

Thank you, Madam Chair. My first set of questions is for Dr. Michaud of BioCanRx. The Liberal government recently announced a series of cuts to science funding. It's affecting over a dozen science organizations. One of them is BioCanRx. Can you walk the committee through how some of these recently announced funding reductions will impact BioCanRx's current research portfolio and future [more]

Were you consulted, or was it just a notice?

I'll use my remaining time to ask a few questions. My first set of questions is for Professor Chan. It's good to have you here on this committee. As a U of T alum, I've seen first-hand the research process that U of T outputs every year. It really puts Canada on the map, on the world stage, when it comes to research. Is Canada too focused on early-stage research funding at the expense of [more]

Should I read it, or should I just move on to debate?

Would you be agreeable to a policy where, if that money gets offshored, the recipients of that money would then have to pay it back to the government, or pay a portion of it back to the government?

Thanks, Professor Chan. I'll ask the question again to Mr. Doyle. What ways can we fix that imbalance? We're seeing taxpayer-funded IP being owned overseas ultimately. What are some ways that the federal government can change its policy so that research is outputted to ownership by Canadians and for Canadians?

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'd like to take a moment to move the motion that was put on notice back on February 11 of this year. I believe members in this committee have had ample time to look it over, and copies were distributed at the start of the meeting.