Thank you for being here with us today to talk about Bill C-18. I started my questioning to the minister just about plant breeders' rights. Interestingly enough, I had met with the delegation of members of Parliament from Taiwan earlier this year. They knew that Bill C-18 was coming and they expressed a concern. They are not a signatory to UPOV, any of the UPOVs actually, but Canada is of course going to be moving from UPOV 78 to UPOV 91. Their concern was whether their plant breeders would be protected if they sold into Canada.
I'll give you the example that we were talking about. Taiwan produces a breed of orchid that has proven to be very successful commercially. They'd like to know if Taiwanese orchid breeders sold into Canada certain traits, whether their plant rights would be protected through doing so because we've moved to UPOV 91. I'm wondering if you could address that.