Agriculture committee  As you're probably aware, the provinces and the federal government have laws that deal with intermingling between the production of two systems. I'm not a lawyer, but there are strong precedents in legal practice as to how those things work. I would advise, if you want to get int

Agriculture committee  I have two very quick points. Argentina has suffered an investment chill in the last 10 or 15 years, not because of the regulatory changes but because it got into a dispute over ownership of the intellectual property. The new rules may or may not improve the transfer of technolo

Agriculture committee  Sure. I'll answer your last question first. Is there a method that could actually deliver the intent of the bill? I'm an economist. Whoever pays me can get advice out of me, and sometimes that means that you will get multiple bits of advice on what the market effect will be. The

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much. To give you a sense of where I'm coming from, I study the issues of innovation as they relate to agrifood and trade. I've spent the better part of 13 years in a series of research chairs, research projects, funded by the granting councils and by various agen