Thank you, Chair.
I'd like to thank all of our witnesses for being here on this important piece of legislation, the agricultural growth act. It is a far-reaching bill that has implications that will last for years and years to come, so it's very important to have this debate. I've really enjoyed all the input from all our witnesses here today.
Mr. Smith, you're saying that with the adoption of UPOV 91 there will be darker days for the organics industry. I keep thinking of my riding, where this week there's the Festival de la Galette. It's a buckwheat festival. I invite everybody interested to come to my riding, to Louiseville, where we're having galettes and celebrating buckwheat.
But is this bill really good for farmers? Will this take more money out of their pockets? There was a lot of talk from Mr. Boehm, who was saying that we could just stay where we're at with UPOV 78. Would you agree that maybe we could stay with UPOV 78?