First of all, it's a comment I made during committee on several occasions. The move from UPOV 78 to UPOV 91 does involve some change, but really it's an extension of plant breeders' rights that are already inherent, for the most part, in UPOV 78. It's not a leap from no plant breeders' rights to UPOV 91. It's an extension of rights, for the most part, that are contained within UPOV 78. I'm hoping that Mr. Allen will agree that a 2% incident under UPOV 78 and simply extending the plant breeders' rights under UPOV 91 is not a cataclysmic change in plant breeders' rights—it's more like an evolution forward—and does not really pose a risk to farmers across Canada.
The other thing I would say is, if I understood the analogy he was giving, that plant breeders might pull product A to come out with product B because they can make more money and it might be only a small technical change of some kind. But I would go back to what we discussed this morning, which is on page 3 of the act. When you look at the plant breeders' rights, first of all it's not retroactive, but second, what is it that is protected? Well, there are the four key characteristics: it has to be a new variety, it has to be distinguishable, it has to be stable, it has to be homogeneous. So it has to be a new variety of plant, and I don't think changing the colour of the seed or something like that would necessarily put it into that category.