Mr. Gerard Peets at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On May 10th, 2012. See this statement in context.

May 10th, 2012 / 10:05 a.m.

Senior Director, Strategy and Planning Directorate, Strategic Policy Sector , Department of Industry

I'll start on that one.

I don't think the system promotes litigation, but the system is designed to provide private rights to businesses and people, and then it's up to the right holder to enforce his or her rights. What that means is that, when you get legitimate disagreements between people, they have to go to court. The system is designed to use civil litigation as a backstop to sort everything out.

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