wraithdrone

Have you never heard about the USSR, the GDR or communist China?

You mean apart from not getting shot if you want to leave the country or being sent to be worked to death in a prison labor camp for a dissenting opinion?

Surely you don't want to suggest that environmental protection has worked better in socialist countries?

Well someone has to dig the tunnel beneath the reactor core...

This. I'm not sure what the ramifications are, depending on what law may be applicable (like US-american or canadian), but apart from having given away something that in all likelihood they had no right of ownership over, they might even be liable for some sort of confidentiality breach due to that.

"It’s his job to say who should buy it."

Is it though? I suggest his position is more that of presenting what's there, rather than make the choice for those interested in buying something like that...

Yeah well German politicians have really gone out of their way the past couple of years to make that happen. Setting off to tank the economy and self-righteously pushing away any and all criticism has never worked out well for anyone...