Industry committee  For the genomic field, again it's hard to compare, but after eight years, 80% is going to operations for the projects, 15% for infrastructure and equipment, and about 5% to 6%, the rest, for the G and A, the general administration.

Industry committee  Exactly. So we have a communication problem. It was never in the headlines. I take the blame for that. We have to do it, we have to publish results of research like we publish results of hockey games.

Industry committee  Having been a national team member myself, I know what you are talking about. You are an expert in communication. Researchers have a huge need to communicate with the public. Some have it; some don't. You are from Quebec City. Professor Fernand Labrie has the opportunity and sk

Industry committee  People say that Genome Canada manages its money like a venture capital fund. That is good or bad, depending on whom you are talking to. When we invest in long-term research projects, we make sure that there can be an outcome of some kind within five years. I will give you two exa

Industry committee  In the case of Genome Canada, we took the models of the United States, U.K., and Germany, and now the model of Genome Canada is being emulated, copied, by other countries.

Industry committee  Slowly we are becoming the benchmark.

Industry committee  In a nutshell, the Canadian innovation system works. The challenge is sustainability. We took 10 years to build it. Now it's time to collect the low-hanging fruit, and if we don't keep funding the Canadian system of innovation, we'll be in deep trouble. There is a generation of

Industry committee  Very quickly, four years ago we had a major issue with mad cow disease. We went to the industry, because it cost $1.9 billion of trade deficit with Canada and the United States. My board said, what can we do to help? We helped by providing the sequence of the bovine genome, which

Industry committee  Just very quickly. In that context, remember when you talk about IP that 20 years ago Canada did not have a law on patent. If you take human health as an example, it takes 15 years to get the product on the market, from the bench to the bedside. We are just at the beginning of t

Industry committee  It takes a number of different tradespeople to build a house. We have people in two completely different trades. We deal with genes, with a genomic approach, the plans, the architecture. They have a more biological approach, more applied research. The two are complementary. The s

Industry committee  Let me assure you that there is no duplication of costs.

Industry committee  I can put your mind at rest about that.

Industry committee  If you look in the package that we provided to you, there is a graphic showing co-founders of Genome Canada. Genome Canada receives $1 from the Government of Canada; by contract, we have to raise another $1 from another source. And it is not federal-provincial. We have to lobby--

Industry committee  I think we do. We have done a lot of catching up over the past eight to ten years. I will take this opportunity to answer your question along with Mr. Brison's questions on...because we always benchmark with Silicon Valley. I had a chance, when I was a scientist, to work in Sor

Industry committee  No, no, the questions are very related. He asked what the ingredients were and you asked about the balance. You have to do some cooking here. The solution is time. It takes time. Don't compare Sorrento Valley or Silicon Valley with what we do today. In ten years from now, we wi