When you say “protect” I understand “without duplicate cost”. I'm going to listen carefully to what others have to say, but it seems to me we're approaching this the wrong way. There's a huge benefit to the Canadian people who are paying the freight for the work to be done. We ought to get a piece of the action if we don't actually hold control outright. I'm not hearing that from any of you.
I understand that it may not be part of core government, but if Canadian taxpayers' money has developed it and there's money to be made, they should get their piece of the action. I'm repeating myself, but your approach is the opposite. It's that we'll only keep it internally for the Canadian people by exception.
Does anybody have any idea how much money may have already gone out there because there was no licensing, control, or ownership? Does anybody have any idea how many entities have made more money through the IP end of it than on the original contract?
Thank you.