The way governments pour money into this is by funding grants at research universities. This came out of McMaster, though, and I don't know if the Canadian gov

The way governments pour money into this is by funding grants at research universities. This came out of McMaster, though, and I don't know if the Canadian government does funding the same way as we do in the USA. Still it raises an ugly question, why can discoveries funded by the citizens of a country be turned into the patented property of private companies.