Thank you.
For the both of you, can you table with this committee what percentage of your IP has been transferred to Canadian companies and non-Canadian companies over the last five years?
Dr. Singh, being from the farm all my life, I'm very interested in agriculture development, especially when it comes to seed production. You talked about “never too early” as far as getting involved in IP protection. If I'm hearing you right in your testimony and your comments, we need to have a different approach when it comes to IP protection, or at least in getting the value of IP here in Canada. I'm wondering if you can expand on that a little bit more.
Right now we have a system where we're still very focused on the jobs parts of it or actually putting people in big plants and stuff like that, but for the intangible kind of assets that are out there right now, which are proving to be of greater value, such as intellectual property, I think Canada is really falling short.
I don't know if you could expand on that or if you could comment on that. Maybe we need to have a different look at how we protect intellectual property in Canada.