-prouder no doubt than the Liberal Party, which waged a fierce battle to prevent a real pharmaceutical research centre from being created in Montreal.
I ask the minister to tell us today in this House if he does not think he should reassure the pharmaceutical industry and if he is considering announcing once and for all that he will not call into question the 20-year patent protection, whereby a drug developed and patented by a company cannot be copied by others. I ask him to make that commitment here in this House today.