A couple of thoughts come to mind. One is that when the patent extension was granted to the pharmaceutical industry, there was a promise for increased investment in research and development in Canada, and those promises were never upheld by the industry, so they never actually did make the investments that were promised in the initial extension of patent term protection. The evidence internationally supports that. I mean, it just has not happened, so extending patents does not actually increase R and D investment in the host country. That's just the bottom line.
The way to increase investments in R and D.... A lot of our R and D is government funded as it is and will probably continue to be, but what's important then is to have policies to ensure that government-funded research is not just given away to profit-taking companies to use for their profits and not in the interests of the public.