Thank you, Chair.
I thank the witnesses for coming today.
I need to help correct a couple of things. I know that Mr. Boehm talked about the NFU, about how good it was for the farmers and how they controlled their seed. My colleague talked about the Wheat Board. I wanted to touch a bit more on that. Of course, with the Wheat Board, for wheat and barley, the farmer, if he was selling, had no opportunity to manage that himself. Even if he wanted to sell it for milling, he had no opportunity to do that. Since the Wheat Board is gone, I have a whole ton of farmers in my riding who are just tickled pink. They can sell it wherever they want, so that's really positive.
On the other comment, our colleague across the way, Ms. Brosseau, talked about UPOV 91 and the potential for regulation to change and eliminate breeders' rights. This is an international agreement, as I understand it, and I don't believe you could change that through regulation without actually bringing it back to Parliament.
That said, I do have a couple of questions, and certainly there were some really positive comments from Partners in Innovation—