Mr. Lee Webster at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On May 7th, 2007. See this statement in context.

May 7th, 2007 / 4:50 p.m.

Chair, Intellectual Property Committee, Canadian Chamber of Commerce

I'll jump on board that one.

I think there's a baffling internal bureaucratic inertia to doing anything about this. I cannot honestly understand it at all. Intellectual property rights have been around for 400 years, since the English Statute of Monopolies in 1623. Why can't this government see that IP rights are important and give us the best tools we can have to restrain intellectual property infringement? We're now seeing serious safety issues out there. There are economic problems, and I don't understand why people just don't jump on board this issue.

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