Yes. I have two quick points.
It's important to remember that one of the commitments made by the originator pharmaceutical industry when NAFTA was adopted with more stringent IP provisions and less policy space for Canada was that they would commit to 10% of sales spent annually on R and D.
Interestingly, according to the figures reported by the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board for the first period of time and until the review of NAFTA that was mandated by law was completed, those commitments were met. The minute that review was completed and every year since then, they have consistently dropped. So the notion that somehow adopting ever more stringent IP provisions will necessarily translate into more R and D certainly hasn't been borne out in Canada's experience with NAFTA.
The second point I would make is that if, as we've heard, the IP provisions in the TPP aren't really anything particularly new or different, then why have they been negotiated for so hard? If that's true, there shouldn't be that much opposition to removing them, if they don't actually add that much. I suspect the answer is that they are seen by the originator pharmaceutical industry to be giving them something of significant benefit and that's why they're there.