Yes, I think there are a number of dimensions to it. One very clear one is that if it is true--and I'm sure the evidence your committee is considering indicates that it is true--that most innovation in an economy like Canada's or the United Kingdom's comes from smaller firms, you're going to want to make sure that the IP system is working well for smaller firms as well as for big firms. What measures can help there? Access-to-justice issues, access-to-the-courts issues can help, as would taking measures to restrain the costs of legal proceedings, and there are various ways you can go about doing that. But I would say that the biggest single thing you can do for smaller firms is to take every step that is practical to take to try to ensure that markets are working in a way that permits, and indeed encourages, competition from smaller firms, rather than blanking them out either through the activities of patent trolls and patent thickateers or the control of markets and copyright content, which in some cases is structured in a way that is unduly skewed in favour of incumbents and old business models.
On June 12th, 2012. See this statement in context.