Peter Braid at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On May 2nd, 2013. See this statement in context.

May 2nd, 2013 / 5:40 p.m.

Conservative

Peter Braid Conservative Kitchener—Waterloo, ON

Thank you very much.

I actually want to stay on this theme, which I touched on earlier, of the importance of intellectual property.

I'm seeing in the main estimates for Industry Canada on pages 187 and 188—and the following page of 188 specifically—an increase of $6.7 million for the Canadian Intellectual Property Office, as part of a strategy to upgrade that organization's IT infrastructure. Given the importance of CIPO, and of intellectual property, I'm pleased to see this investment.

Will this investment help to modernize CIPO? Will it also help to streamline the patent process?

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