My view would be that a flexible intellectual property system in Canada is important to protect inventions and encourage inventors. Predictability is important because investors, multinationals, people looking to commercialize technologies here, need to know they will have market exclusivity for a period of time, and not waste important commercial time defending a patent and having their patent vulnerable and their market opportunity reduced. Consistency is important in the spirit of harmonization and our ability to be globally competitive.
On October 4th, 2012. See this statement in context.