Yes, thank you for asking me the question.
Globally, Canada is still a small potato-producing area compared to other parts of the world. However, there is so much potential in Canada to expand. As I said, over 50% of the potato industry in Canada is west of Thunder Bay, and there is a shift to coming from the west as opposed to most of it being produced in the east. Currently our PBR legislation only allows 18 years' production for protection, and it takes 5 years to get a variety actually generated in the field, to get it to a large enough production that you can actually do anything with it. If we could extend that, we would get additional interest from other countries. For instance, a lot of the PBR varieties we grow in Alberta and other parts of Canada are from Europe. Currently its potato production is 30 years. So, we are at a huge disadvantage to that. It would allow new genetics to come into Canada that our own breeding programs could introduce to their programs. With government cutbacks, our public breeding program is really struggling to meet the demands domestically for our own programs. So, we're starting to rely more and more on genetics than different varieties coming in from outside of Canada. By extending the PBR legislation it would certainly entice more investment and more interest from other areas.