I'm the CEO of an organization with labs in Stockholm, Germany, England, America, Brazil and Canada. The system of science is the same around the world. Frankly, it is rather open. We publish. That's how we get our credibility, by publishing. When we're speaking about product development, we believe that the secrecy in that small aspect of the research endeavour causes more harm than good. We think open science is the solution to that.
To the point about whether Canada should invest, let's all remember the U.K. government study that showed that a dollar invested in health research leads to six dollars of economic benefit—not only health impacts, but actual economic benefit. If you're thinking of your ROI, it's a good investment in terms of public dollars.