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Patents, the charter & a healthy dose of rights in wrongs: the poison is the elixir for life, liberty & security of the person.(Canada)
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University of New Brunswick Law Journal
- Article date:
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November 1, 2007
- Author:
- Amani, Bita
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What is it about our political process that enables legislatures and governments to ignore the most fundamental interests of significant segments of society with impunity? (1)
1. INTRODUCTION
There are some 3,000-4,000 hereditary diseases related to errors in our genetic code including cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, diabetes and various forms of cancer (breast, stomach, colorectal etc). (2) The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation estimates that 22,200 women will have been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006 and 5,300 will die; of the 160 estimated new cases of breast cancer in men, 45 are expected to die. (3) Breast Cancer is a disease that disproportionately ...