Insulin was discovered by four Canadians, who famously sold the patent for $1 each to the University of Toronto—enabling the public manufacture of the new miracle drug for people with diabetes. That was in 1921, and for 65 years insulin was produced in Canada at a publicly owned laboratory—Connaught Laboratories—and distributed across the country at…
You would need a government in opposition provincially that was politically adverse to the federal government. If you end up with 2 conservative governments it’s likely they wouldn’t oppose one another ideologically.
The IP clause to allow Canada to rebuild it in case of that happening might poison any potential sale, and might discourage a province from wanting to sell if Canada would then rebuild in a new province?
But I’m just spitballing and have no idea if it even makes sense
You would need a government in opposition provincially that was politically adverse to the federal government. If you end up with 2 conservative governments it’s likely they wouldn’t oppose one another ideologically.
Yeah, that’s the rub.
The IP clause to allow Canada to rebuild it in case of that happening might poison any potential sale, and might discourage a province from wanting to sell if Canada would then rebuild in a new province?
But I’m just spitballing and have no idea if it even makes sense