There have been a lot of discussions about patent trolls in the consultations that Minister Moore has had.
From what I've seen from these amendments—I've seen a lot of international agreements, harmonization—to be honest, maybe it's going to help. I haven't looked at the specifics and I'm not a patent expert, but I can say that in the patent world out there, the more the risk, the less that people want to patent what they've discovered. We have some members who tell me that they don't actually patent. They think it's not worth it.
We all think it's the right thing to do; you should patent everything. However, out there in the business sector, some SMEs don't feel it is worth it.
I'm worried about it, and I'm sorry that I don't have a solution for that as yet. It's a conversation that we need to have. There is a lot of open-source innovation being done over there with the Internet right now. I just don't know that that is reflected in our patent system, to be honest.