Science and Research committee  Thank you so very much for this privilege.

Science and Research committee  We continue to work with the federal government on any directions on the security of our research, the knowledge we create and the knowledge we organize with any particular entity. Guidance and advice from the federal government are always sought. I would say this is a very new l

Science and Research committee  Thank you very much. May I request that you speak to one or two intangibles that you think we need to look at?

Science and Research committee  Yes, you were mentioning that there are some intangibles that we need to keep in mind when we look at intellectual property.

Science and Research committee  Thank you very much. I think the intellectual property piece is always under flux with the new legislation and the legalities around it. On the same point, there's our ability to identify a piece of knowledge that could have a material effect on the prosperity of Canadians, whet

Science and Research committee  Yes, I'm talking about royalties as a benefit of the intellectual property. That's one of the benefits when we create a protection on a piece of knowledge. Sometimes when we are working with producers to solve a problem on the farm, we may just generate the knowledge, give it op

Science and Research committee  I will be happy to do that. We will submit it to the committee today.

Science and Research committee  Thank you very much. I think that question is of deep importance to our country. As large as our country is, we have only 37 million people spread across a large land mass. For the polytechnics, for example, there is a very critical role when it comes to working with the small a

Science and Research committee  Thank you very much. One of the changes in culture is the way we view intellectual property and the way we can make investments. The recent investments in biomanufacturing hubs in our country is really to offset the challenges we felt during the pandemic. We had no biomanufactur

Science and Research committee  I couldn't put my finger on any specific piece, but overall there is a feeling that in Canada we have underfunding of our research system and of the connections between basic science and the applications for commercialization. For example, to add to what has been said about TRI

Science and Research committee  One difference I can speak to is the way we produce our crops compared with creating a product in a factory. For the seed lines or the varieties, the cultivars that we have are eventually turned into a seed. The seed is released through a regulatory mechanism after it has been ap

Science and Research committee  As is the case with intellectual property protection, it has evolved over the last many decades to the point where the germplasm of the plants and animals is considered a national treasure and a resource. Countries are becoming quite protective of the germplasm. In Saskatchewan,

Science and Research committee  Respectfully, are you asking about the agri-food system or the broader question, please?

Science and Research committee  I think in Canada we can be so proud of our agri-food production system, plants and animals both. From Prince Edward Island to the University of British Columbia, whether we look at the veterinary medical faculty at the Université de Montréal or the agriculture college at Laval o

Science and Research committee  That's a good question. Thank you. To the first part of the question, I'm a veterinarian by training. I have taught in Prince Edward Island. I have visited that beautiful college in Truro, Nova Scotia. Specifically that college has made contributions to agri-food policy in our c