The laws that need to be thought about are not IP laws. Our IP laws are perfectly flexible as they are. We just don't have much in terms of knowledge about intellectual property management. How do you use them?
Let me give you a couple of examples where government does go wrong.
There was a deal a while back between the Government of Canada and the universities about funding the so-called Canada research chairs and other funding agencies. The universities said that if the government did that the universities would double their commercialization and they would measure that based on licence fees, number of patents, and number of licences. The problem with that is it makes everybody look at the short term: let's just get patents out there; let's just increase them. You can always increase the number of patents. It doesn't mean any of them are useful. It doesn't mean they're used well.
What you want is strategic use. It looks increasingly as though universities shouldn't necessarily be in the patenting business. They won't make money off it. If you look at the United States, more than half either lose money or just break even on technology licensing. They're spending a lot of time and they're facing lots of litigation because of it, so their litigation costs are going up.
So the idea would be to change policies like that to say no, you don't have to go commercialize it; we want you to work with industry, within these key areas, and we'll facilitate that. A lot of it, contracting rules and so on, is going to fall within provincial jurisdiction, but it's taking away the measurements that we put on universities to commercialize.