International Trade committee  Correct.

International Trade committee  As I said, you start with the strategy, and then trade is a vehicle. We did it backwards.

International Trade committee  No, the difference is that I've talked to the people who did FTA and NAFTA, and they did five years of study, consultation, and strategy, then they modelled it all, and then they went into the negotiations.

International Trade committee  Because TPP is designed in a way that enshrines the positions of the actors permanently.

International Trade committee  No, no, there isn't a single study in the world that says innovation will be better in TRIPS Plus under TPP rather than TRIPS under the WTO. It is exactly the opposite—

International Trade committee  As the person who's commercialized more in the history of this country, that is not how the system works, not at all. It works exactly the opposite. You have it 100% backwards. What you're doing in these rigid rules massively disadvantages Canadian innovators.

International Trade committee  IP protection is not about innovation; it is about protecting entrenched interests to preclude the ability of new innovators to come in. This is precisely what Robert Reich—

International Trade committee  That is a false narrative of how the innovation economy works.

International Trade committee  Because the game is run by patent thickets, and the decision of ownership is decided outside Canada, in courts that are—

International Trade committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, vice-chairs, members of the committee, and fellow Canadians. Good morning. Thank you for the invitation to meet with the committee and present my views on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. It is an honour and a pleasure to be here. I am a self-made capitalist, and I believe in free trade and open markets.