We heard from a witness in the last round who talked about how, because there have been so many governments investing in these vaccines, investment would trump IP rights, or has a way to trump IP rights. It's a curious idea. When does government investment take precedence as far as who actually has ownership of the intellectual property, in this case? Does anything there need to be explored?
IP is very important. I think both Ms. Bendayan and Mr. Blaikie would agree with me. We want to make sure we have these companies doing this ongoing research for the next pandemic or the next issue. I don't want to do anything that would ever dissuade or make it so that other companies just say, “No, we're not interested.”
In the same breath, if we are spending a lot of public money in the development of these, then we should talk about that too and about how it impacts intellectual property.