We are going somewhere with this.
It was a great analogy, because he used it to describe what he saw as the problem in that particular field, which is different from what we're talking about today, but it did strike me that in some ways what you are describing is the Swiss-cheese effect, in that we have many good innovations, but do we have the system that holds it together in a coherent way, and even if we do in particular areas, is it national in scale? That's what I kind of get out of what you're saying today, and I hope I'm right.
So to be a bit more specific, Dr. Hoch, you said that we need to evaluate HTA, health technology assessment. That sounded a bit odd to me, we have to evaluate the assessments. No? Okay, I got that wrong.
My question was, what is CADTH's role in that? Is that agency adequate and sufficient to do those evaluations, or are you talking about something beyond that?
Then to Dr. Holbrook, in terms of the intellectual property rights, again I think there are so many questions here, but I know what you're saying about graduate...I mean, who owns this work? I know it's an issue that comes up all the time. Whose responsibility is it in a country like Canada? We have this federation; we have provinces. Certainly when you look at health care, it's provincial delivery, and we're always trying to zero in on what the federal responsibility is to bring about resolutions for some of the issues. I'd really appreciate it if you could give us your perspectives on what the federal role should be in the problems you've identified. I've now just pulled out two, but you had many other examples as well.