Finance committee  Well, of course, I would argue that it's very important. The dynamic that I see among universities and colleges across the country is.... We really have focused since the mid-nineties on helping our industries become more competitive. The context for me is that Canada has thi

Finance committee  I mentioned this name earlier. Francis McGuire is a pretty extraordinary person who's involved in economic development. He was brought in by Frank McKenna when Frank McKenna became premier here. He was deputy minister in charge of economic development. He left to become a private

Finance committee  Thank you for the question, Greg. As you are well aware, these are important issues for Universities Canada. What I see as particularly useful investments by the federal government have been in university-industry partnerships and alliances. I include colleges when I say that. T

Finance committee  Thank you very much for the invitation to appear before you. It is much appreciated. You are consulting with us on issues with respect to economic growth, and I want to speak to you about what I believe to be the critically important role of universities and colleges across the

Industry committee  Thank you all very much for listening to us.

Industry committee  I think this goes way beyond copyright. I'm on the board of CANARIE, the national research network across the country. We are helping to fund Research Data Canada to explore these issues. If I understood you correctly, Majid, your daughter is interested in the data on which the p

Industry committee  —and there is a reasonably good argument for that data to be widely available, with open access, perhaps, but there is, alas, a strong sense of ownership of that data by the people who conducted the experiments that created it. There will need to be a significant change in cultur

Industry committee  Essentially, we believe we pay for what we use.

Industry committee  No.

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  I don't have a solution for you here today. Lesley, do you...?

Industry committee  I just wanted to add that the vast majority of our faculty members are authors in their own right. I am. I write copyright materials to be published. The idea that our faculty members would be interested in some kind of widespread abuse of copyright doesn't pass the sniff test fo

Industry committee  I agree absolutely. Somehow for me it's like being boiled in oil to be sitting next to Ms. Bulger engaging in this argument. We generally don't think the issues you're trying to address are properly addressed through fair dealing. We think there are other vehicles through which t

Industry committee  No. It's the cost of our copyright activities.

Industry committee  Yes. This includes, for example, the salary of our copyright officer—