ok, you don't have drug safety issues because you just make generics of american drugs. your entire country spent 600 something million dollars on R&D in 98, we spend 37 billion dollars, almost every major drug company in canada is american or european and you have ten or less academic institutions that are capable of conferring an acceptable research degree for the industry. your researchers complain about their vulnerability to outside interests.

whatever, i could care less about this and realize the futility of arguing against a marxist CS student hooked on disnfopedia, but you guys essentially don't have anything for r&d at the moment. i'm sure you could, but it'd be a scramble for a few years if america vanished. freeloading and pumping out generics of drugs we've proven safe isn't that impressive.