I can give you a little bit more background information on the variety registration process.
There are two ways that cancellation is done. It can be done at the CFIA's initiation for a number of reasons: disease—it's maybe no longer resistant to disease—it's a harm on the market, there's no value in it, it might infringe on another variety. It can be done at the request of the company itself, the registrant. They would initiate the cancellation
The policy of the CFIA when someone initiates a cancellation in this way is that we look at it and we put it out there for comment and thought from the industry and the stakeholders. The process of cancellation when it's initiated by the registrant can take up to three years, so we receive comment on that. The policy of the CFIA is that if there's value from that seed still remaining in the marketplace we would delay that cancellation until the registrant and the farmers affected could work out how the benefits could be addressed. If there's a seed in the marketplace you need time to make sure it can be brought off the marketplace if a registration is cancelled.
From our perspective the processes are already in place to make sure that seeds are not cancelled and then taken off the market when there's still a benefit.