Thank you.
Whose responsibility is it for trying to bring together the question of intellectual property?
This was really the same sort of question in relationship to ethics. Ethics is a mixture of social norms, cultural norms, and provincial and federal law. In the end, this was done by a tri-council committee, if I am correct, which issued a set of guidelines but did not impose an actual procedure on each of the universities. So all of the universities follow the tri-council guidelines, but each has its own particular spin on them.
I would argue the same thing should be true for intellectual property. Certainly most graduate students in the health sector—not just the health care sector—are funded one way or another through federal grants, either directly or indirectly, and one of the conditions of these grants, just as for ethics, is that there should be recognition of their intellectual property rights.