We changed the system so that we were largely going to have private funding of biotechnology research because it is very expensive to commercialize these things and bring them forth to market, but we created a system whereby only the biggest of the multinationals can do this. I think that's a very consistent problem. It seems to me that the way you reduce that concentration is to go back, and as we did in pre-biotechnology days, and have the public sector able to put more products on the market directly. That will reduce the power of those companies. We can produce crops that can self-regenerate, and farmers can keep the seed. The private biotechnology company has no incentive to do that at all, but the universities and Agriculture Canada can do those things. That, to me, would be a way to reduce that concentration. We created a system whereby the private companies would take the bulk of the lifting and do that investment, and now maybe the result has been this great increase in concentration. Probably nobody saw it at the time.
On February 7th, 2011. See this statement in context.