e-4728 (Human diseases)

Petition to the Government of Canada

• Curing diseases is invaluable to humanity;
• It's saddening to know the only thing preventing us from finding some cures is funding;
• The ice bucket challenge for ALS research created a breakthrough on understanding this disease from the donations of this initiative;
• If we can incentivise rich people and companies to invest in curing diseases, who knows what we can achieve;
• It’s no secret that competition encourages creativity and innovation;
• When millionaires and billionaires are competing against each other, they hold no expense for attempting to find new methods to achieve their goals;
• Let's create an open program that allows anyone to compete to cure a disease;
• The winning company can operate in Canada tax-free for a pre-determined amount of time;
• Whichever company “wins” by curing a listed disease, they’d want to build new manufacturing facilities and other expansions in Canada ultimately providing more jobs; and
• Incentivizing competition and creating a "race" to cure diseases would be a ground-breaking and world-leading approach to this.