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their door, for this election or for any other purpose, "We want to
see Canada number one in this, and own it because there's a lot
of intellectual property." The company I started had over a hundred
patents issued to it already. And those patents are going to mean
that there's residual income into this country for a long time. But if
the government doesn't continue to support it and actually be proud
of what Canada's doing ahead of everyone else, what will happen
is it will be a window where we were the leader, the winner, and
then we were really Canadian and actually passive. And that won't
work out super well.
Peter Szecsodi:
Yesterday, the United States government passed the SAFE Banking
Act. How do you think that will affect the United States industry and
where do you think that industry is going in relation to the rest of
the world?

Bruce Linton:
The US is little by little, corner by corner, evolving a platform that's
a bit of a patchwork, but it's going to mean that the capacity of
entrepreneurs in America is no longer hindered by banking or state
regulations, or federal. So, the next thing that's going to happen is
states’ rights. And that will mean that banking and federal
authorities are available to the states which wish to have it. And
then we will not be able to sit back and wait because they're going
to be fully in the game.

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