I think if the bill is not passed or the plant breeders' rights aren't amended, it will affect our industry's ability to invest and incentivize industry to put more into plant breeders research, simply because the level of protection allows us to trade and bring in varieties as well to do further research here in Canada. That simply is not as accessible or easy under the UPOV 78 that we have now. In essence it's beneficial for industry to have this to incentivize everyone to invest more and to have a greater ability to trade with other partners, both bringing in genetics, but more importantly for us, selling genetics abroad where we could have protection.
On October 28th, 2014. See this statement in context.