The issue focused on the government's claim that it is "in a better place" with new research.

Doty, an independent science and technology expert, has been making his own case in public to members of Parliament. The study he co-authored with Michael Rakelle, a former member of the federal Research Council, was made public for the first time at a special House of Commons committee last year.

Hear from David Dallaire, who had this take:

