Thank you very much.
I think the intellectual property piece is always under flux with the new legislation and the legalities around it. On the same point, there's our ability to identify a piece of knowledge that could have a material effect on the prosperity of Canadians, whether it's through job creation, protecting the health of the animals and the humans in this country, or by creating royalties from the products that might be produced in some other jurisdiction and brought back to us. Sometimes I believe that an intellectual property piece could also advance Canada's diplomacy around the globe, in the countries where there a food security challenge or a water security challenge.
May I give you an example?
The discovery at the University of Saskatchewan of the virus I was referring to that affects pigs is called circovirus. A few years later we figured out that this virus is actually causing a disease in the pigs. Once we developed the technology to produce a vaccine, it was purchased by a company that is based in France. Still, through the production of the vaccine, not only did we protect the health of the pigs in this country, which is a multi-billion dollar export, but we also were able to generate about $100 million in royalties for the inventors and for the university, to further flow back into research ecosystem.
I really agree with you—