I will address the second half of your question. I'll leave it to my farmer friends to comment on the advance payment.
I would just make the comment quickly that everybody in the system needs to make money. That includes farmers, absolutely. If farmers aren't making a profit, then nobody makes a profit, and there are no investments in new research and development. We have to have the regulatory environment in place that allows everybody in the value chain to make a profit. If they don't, if plant breeders aren't making a profit, then the small plant breeders in Canada will go broke. Then the large plant breeders are going to invest in the United States or Australia, and it is our competitors who will get the advantage of the new varieties.
We need to have a regulatory environment that allows everybody in the system to make money. That is the kind of environment that will attract investments into Canada and encourage the development of new companies. Not all of my plant breeder and CropLife members are big organizations. Some of them are pretty small companies. They are strongly supportive of this legislation because it gives them an opportunity for growth and development.