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International Trade committee Well, that's largely what I've been suggesting—that we have a more regional, more limited concept of supply chains. As I said, it gives us the advantages of economies of scale, but it also reduces at least one level of risk from our supply chains.
April 19th, 2021Committee meeting
Brian Daley
International Trade committee Well, as one of my colleagues said earlier, we are getting suppliers who honour their contracts with us, so we have not seen our major trading partners impede supplies to Canada. My idea behind the regional suggestion is that we really shorten some of the supply chains and limit
April 19th, 2021Committee meeting
Brian Daley
International Trade committee Thank you, Ms. Bendayan. I'm not sufficiently versed in the finer points of the TRIPS agreement to really answer that question. I think, as I said earlier, that wholesale renunciation or waiver of patent rights is not the way to go, but I certainly think that any measures that t
April 19th, 2021Committee meeting
Brian Daley
International Trade committee Yes, I would, and I think there are a couple of things that we need to keep in mind. Some people have mentioned that intellectual property rights prevent the development of new medicines and that it would be great if everybody just had access to open-source intellectual property.
April 19th, 2021Committee meeting
Brian Daley
International Trade committee Certainly, Ms. Bendayan. Thank you. As I said, I read the request for waiver on the WTO website. It's framed in very general terms. Let's take patent rights as an example. It simply asks for a wholesale suspension, essentially in several countries. If you were an IP rights hold
April 19th, 2021Committee meeting
Brian Daley
International Trade committee There are two answers to that, or at least two aspects of an answer to it. The first is that your idea is in keeping with what I suggested, which was that a regional approach to producing products to combat pandemics such as COVID is desirable, and this region includes the Unite
April 19th, 2021Committee meeting
Brian Daley
International Trade committee I think you're right that we have to increase our domestic capacity. There's no doubt about that. That's the lesson we've learned in the last year. We've seen some of the weaknesses of allowing a widely dispersed global supply chain. That said, as I mentioned in my presentation
April 19th, 2021Committee meeting
Brian Daley
International Trade committee I don't think trade agreements are ever going to protect us in every conceivable situation. As we've seen in emergencies, countries, like individuals, look out for their best interests, and they're always going to do so. Nonetheless, I believe a regional idea allows us to rely mo
April 19th, 2021Committee meeting
Brian Daley
International Trade committee Thank you very much, Madam Chairperson. I am a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright in Montreal, where I am the pharmaceutical and life sciences international business group leader. I specialize in patent litigation for pharmaceuticals and medical devices, so I have a perspective o
April 19th, 2021Committee meeting
Brian Daley