To the best of my knowledge, none of the other half-dozen or so jurisdictions that have adopted something similar to the Canadian regime have moved to the step of doing the kind of review Canada is now doing. That's probably partly because Canada was one of the first to move on this. So we have the most experience under our belt with this so far. Unfortunately, it hasn't brought us to the desired objective.
I am quite optimistic that if Canada, at the end of this review process, were to actually legislate some of the reforms we are proposing to streamline and simplify our compulsory licensing for the export process, that would be of significant interest to a number of other jurisdictions that have adopted similar sorts of processes based on the same flawed underlying WTO decision. I think Canada is in a very good position at this point to say it doesn't work, having tried in good faith to make this WTO system work.
We've had all this expenditure of time and energy by groups like MSF. We've had a generic drug company actually come to the table to develop a product. It's been through a number of the hurdles after much work, and we're still not able to actually get this product out the door.
Something needs to change, and if Canada were to set that precedent and actually say, “We're going to use other flexibilities in the WTO rules to legislate a simple, straightforward process with one licence at the beginning and that's it”, that would embolden a number of other countries to re-examine their own regimes and perhaps think about doing something similar. I think that would be a tremendous contribution for Canada to make.