I'll give the example of the Amazon.com patent. I'm not commenting on whether their decision was right or not, but what the Commissioner of Patents did was to set up an expert panel to advise her on whether business methods ought to be patented in Canada and what the implications were for Canada and Canadian industry. She followed that recommendation and did not issue the patent. The court said sorry, you're not allowed to do that.
It's that type of decision over patentable subject matter, especially in new areas to see what is happening internationally, etc.... The United States is having difficulty with business method patents, and the Supreme Court of the United States has been pulling back.
But instead of waiting for this to go through the court system, which can take 10 or 20 years, CIPO is better empowered to make those decisions. Other micro-decisions I think are better made by the court, but that sort of big policy about what kind of thing should be patented is the type of thing that CIPO should be doing.