I'll just add that it's an interesting challenge. The automatic response might end up making it worse. When you offer intellectual property protection, it's the company that holds it, and it's their private right. They would build an investment plan around that because they have certainty over what they own.
The question then is what kind of overall environment you have for them to grow in, and whether they can grow to scale in the country. I think Jenkins also addressed this in terms of Canada having a fairly strong performance as a start-up nation, with many SMEs that are using excellent technology. The question is whether they have the capital to get started and then to get to a size where they can actually compete and win in world markets, and do it from here.
It was picked up on by the panel because Canada has built an enviable S and T system. Our higher education sector is world class with respect to the type of talent and the kind of brain power we can bring to bear. The question is whether we want those folks to stay in academia. The answer is that there will never be enough spaces and that you need them in the economy. Then the question is whether we hire those people into the economy and pay them at a level that would be available in other countries. The evidence is no.
It's a matter of business innovation and how we can incent businesses to grow knowledge-intensive, high-technology, globally oriented, export-oriented businesses in this country. The Jenkins panel recommendations cover a number of dimensions of policy where the government can do some things in terms of the overall competitive environment, but it also covers specific policies in the federal domain that could provide an overall better climate.
The question is whether you respond with something that would be narrower, and then perhaps end up getting more of the bad outcome that you're trying to avoid, rather than providing an overall framework that allows the growth to occur in Canada. We obviously have to respect the fact that we are a trading nation, so we won't see the gains we have from trade if we're closed off.