Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our panel members for being here today and being part of our study on IP.
Mr. McDougall, I have some questions pertaining to the NRC and the important work that's done there. At a recent committee meeting we had RIM appear. One of their recommendations for us was that IP developed in Canadian government labs—I think they were referring primarily to the NRC—should be more accessible to private sector companies like RIM, and not only RIM but companies like RIM, so that the IP that's developed with Canadian ingenuity doesn't just sort of sit on a shelf somewhere.
You indicated that with the IP at the NRC you have the option to either license it, to sell it, or to deal it for the benefit of Canada. There seems to be a disconnect in terms of understanding there.
Could you address that? Are there barriers to the licensing of IP developed by the NRC?