Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Speaking to this particular amendment, I think in talking about unreasonable financial burdens you're making an assumption that the new direction of UPOV 91 is going to harm farmers financially. As we've heard here—and for me as a farmer—the most expensive seed is what you buy first. When that's gone, you then go down through the next level. The reason you're looking at that is that you've looked at the traits, you've looked at the situations that exist there. For someone from the outside to assume that these are going to be unreasonable financial burdens.... I guess if you get hailed out, and you bought something that's twice as much as before.... But that's why you have this other suite of things you're going to deal with.
As other people have suggested, when you throw the words “unreasonable financial burdens” in there, you tie in that assumption, which is certainly not the case in the grain industry. There may be some other smaller groups that may fear that, but it certainly isn't the case in the industries we're speaking of here.