Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I appreciate your intervention in terms of the process. I was just curious, though, as to whether or not the minister will be responding to any recommendations that we have. The normal process, historically, in this House, has been that each committee has been independent to itself, often then reporting to the House of Commons, and then getting a ministerial report.
What we're doing here is we're going to be sending a shopping list or some recommendations to another committee. In my opinion, we become subservient to the finance committee because we could always give recommendations, that's always an option, and we're being requested to do so, but we can't make amendments. There's a big difference in those two processes. I'm hoping that whatever we do at the end of the day, the minister will directly respond to this committee's recommendations because I think it's important.
I want to continue with the patent question that we have here because it is very important, for manufacturing, where I come from, and also for this country. What countries are we having a particular problem with in terms of patent protection right now? What identified countries are violating Canadian patents?