Health committee  The report you refer to, Dr. Bennett, is indeed a thoughtful piece, and I think it is one that is good for people to reflect on. One of the workers at our institute was involved in creating it, and I believe it has some good elements to it that are specific for Canada as well. I

Health committee  I'd be happy to stick my neck out first.

Health committee  We think about it in three phases. The first one is products already on the market. These are the low-hanging fruit--the cosmetics industry, some of the food industry, and so on--or what we think about as the trivial applications of nanotechnology. For the next decade or so, we

Health committee  I'll just very briefly respond to the investment side. Today I think it's true that more than half of all investments globally in this technology are by the private sector, so it's clearly a very large amount of money. The expectation is that there are going to be large profits

Health committee  Yes. I think you asked me about the pathway as well. What I wanted to add is that you can make nanoparticles in fundamentally two different ways. You can either grind things down, making them smaller and smaller as you go along, or you can make them by assembling things into part

Health committee  Good morning. My name is Nils Petersen. I did not prepare a formal brief for you, but I would like to just give you a brief background on myself and then also make three points. I'm a physical chemist. I run an institute in Edmonton called the National Institute for Nanotechno