Industry committee  I'll be super brief. There's an important distinction to be made. There are non-practising entities, or NPEs, that essentially have patent portfolios or IP portfolios that they use for the purposes of extolling rents—licences or otherwise. I would make a distinction between an

Industry committee  Mr. Masse, you stumped me.

Industry committee  Great. Just quickly before we get to your questions, I want to note that where we indicated that provincial governments have jurisdiction to set IP policy, we should be clear that IP policy and IP legislation are constitutionally federal, but education is provincial. When we ta

Industry committee  You'll have seen in budget 2017 that the commitment was for a comprehensive national strategy within a year. We are looking and working closely with Minister Bains and his office to help him undertake that strategy and lay it out. Given that it is aimed at being comprehensive, I

Industry committee  The fall as an input would be quite useful. If the fall was the beginning of your study, I think that would be challenging.

Industry committee  Good morning. It's nice to be back. My name is Mark Schaan, as you have just heard, and I'm the director general of the marketplace framework policy branch at Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada. Along with me are my colleagues, Alison McDermott and Konstantinos

Industry committee  The Treasury Board guideline for the regulation-making process is between 12 and 18 months, depending. There's a normal comment period for CG part I, and then a normal comment period for CG part II.

Industry committee  Yes, all the way through.

Industry committee  That's all the way through from the beginning to the OIC approval of the new regs.

Industry committee  I'm not sure I follow the question.

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  It depends on what the mechanism that's placed in the act is, so there are a number of mechanisms for review in an act. In this particular case, depending on each of the three motions, each one of them has a different mechanism. For this one it says, “every five years after that,

Industry committee  I think yours are roughly similar.

Industry committee  They're all to be referred to a committee, so it would be a decision of the Speaker immediately at that point.

Industry committee  That's a parliamentary procedure question that may be better handled by the legislative clerk than me.