Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, guests, for coming.
As many of you know, our country needs some modern legislation, and this bill has a lot in it. I guess, in a way, it would have been better to separate some of the bill because recently when dealing with witnesses it's mostly been UPOV; that seems to be the main issue here. At the end of the day, every time we bring in witnesses, that's where it goes. As was mentioned before, we seem to have two different philosophies. Some would say it's all or nothing to be with the rest of the world, and then we have other groups coming forward here that are not happy at all and would sooner just see the thing removed.
That's not going to happen at the end of the day. As a committee, we are going to try to have some amendments here that could probably work for everybody. That's usually the problem we have, as a committee.
That being said, with CropLife—and I know you represent a lot of big companies and companies that produce the seed—do you think there is any wiggle room to change some of terminology so we can all be half-satisfied in this country with this new bill? The minister said he was open to changing some of the wording on rights and privileges and whatnot.