Agriculture committee  Certainly. What has happened is that varieties that were developed in Canada since PBR came in actually have been developed at public institutions. Those institutions—universities, provincial organizations, and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada—benefit from the revenues generated

Agriculture committee  The first was that plant breeders' rights are not patents. I explained the background related to that. Second, the proposed amendments will not implement end point royalties. Third, no matter what terminology is used, the amendments in the bill entrench the ability to save the

Agriculture committee  Good morning. As Mark said in his introduction, I'm from the Canadian Horticultural Council and Canadian Potato Council. Plant breeders' rights have been tremendously important to our sector. Before Canada implemented plant breeders' rights in 1990, producers could not get fu