I think you need to specify standard rules about how intellectual property can be transferred to the private sector and who owns it. There are all kinds of different variations that you can have on it, but there are no set rules now from any of your granting councils as to what happens with the IP that's generated from it. All I'm suggesting is that there could be significant advantages to having a high-level policy. And I'm not talking about overriding other policies that might exist within the university. I think you have to complement them, but you have to make sure that there is equal access for all.
The Bayh-Dole Act actually gave an unfair advantage to commercializing the technology locally. The Ontario government recently, as you know, announced that it's going to give a tax-free holiday to all IP that comes out of any Canadian university, college, or lab or that is commercialized in Ontario. Those companies for ten years will have a tax-free holiday in Ontario. That's a high incentive to try to commercialize the IP. If the federal government would like to piggyback on that, I'm sure it would raise some eyebrows.