I honestly think exactly as your colleague to your right said: we need an assault on this. The genome is finite. There are only 20,000 genes. It makes perfect sense. Let's just do it. There's no incentive for professors, but industry can provide that monetary incentive. As the public, we say, “Fantastic—as long as we share”. We can do innovative research by getting the private sector involved, and they'll help push us into the unknown. That's the big difference. No one in the world knows how to do that because every time a pharma comes in, they think, "How are we going to share these imaginary riches that we're going to make?" Then there are lawyers and nothing happens. This model, driven by Canada, is a business-sense model that involves sharing, and it will go into the unknown.
On March 5th, 2013. See this statement in context.