Health committee  It could be, but remember what I said first. That is the model, and if we follow that model—which I no longer do—it will lead to unaffordable pricing, so again, we have that tension, right? If we increase the VC funding in Canada and build lots of little biotechs, all the profess

Health committee  No, I think you could license the regulatory protection that Max came up with, which is that it guarantees 10 years of right to sell, and you can license that right to a factory. There is no reason on the planet that industry has to invent medicines. Industry has to manufacture a

Health committee  The rules of patenting are that you may not patent something that has been prior art or in the public domain. Our organization rapidly puts things out there, and that prevents people from patenting and lets everybody use it all around the world.

Health committee  Thanks for having us. I guess it's your day of listening to geeks. I'm a professor at the U of T, Oxford and McGill, and an entrepreneur who has founded several companies, among which is Affinium Pharmaceuticals, whose new antibiotic is in late phase II clinical trials. When we