Thanks, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to everybody for coming here to talk about IP and innovation and commercialization.
Professor Gold from McGill, I was really interested in your comments about having to look at this differently, almost in the opposite way to what we have been doing in the past. You mentioned your background in biotech.
This morning I was on Facebook answering some questions around IP as it relates to seeds, particularly the question of why seed companies don't just provide all of their seed IP for free so that everybody can use it. It takes 10 years to develop a product and get it through approvals, including all the money that goes into research and approvals. We need to protect IP but we also need to make ideas open. Could you maybe speak to that a little more, please?