Thank you.
I have two questions to our witnesses here.
The first one deals with section 16 of the Trade-marks Act. It ensures that an applicant's entitlement to registrations in Canada is based on activity in the Canadian marketplace or an intention to use in the Canadian marketplace.
I'm listening to the arguments from across the way, and I really don't understand their reluctance to agree to amendments that state quite clearly that, if you're going to register in Canada, it has to be used in Canada, and there has to be a real intent to use, which takes away that nefarious, hyperbolic person sitting in the basement trying to register all these trademarks. It's eliminated by that first issue.
The second point is, if this motion was accepted, that person would be entitled to register a trademark in Canada by making it known.
Also, I want an answer on this: would this give them priority over other businesses that have already filed that have a trademark?