I am not all that familiar with the Ontario situation. I've worked with people from Ontario, and the plant breeders who I've been involved with, I know, are much happier with the system they have right now.
I am much more familiar with the system they have in the U.S. In fact, because of KVD, because I couldn't establish the market potential of material that was coming out of my breeding program, I have moved a lot of that to the U.S., simply because that's the only place I could establish the market potential. KVD prevented the varieties I was producing from coming into the system in western Canada.
I have had testing in Ontario. None of my varieties has been adapted to Ontario. At least, it has never been released there. But there has never been any question as to whether farmers could grow them or not. It's completely the acceptability of a variety, any of my varieties, in Ontario and Quebec. There was more interest in Quebec than there was in Ontario, because of the extra cold hardiness. But the only questions that were asked was whether they were productive and whether they would fit the quality requirements of the local market. It had nothing to do with KVD, and that's the way it should be in western Canada.