Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I find it shocking that we have only one hour to study dozens of clauses in this omnibus bill. These clauses should have been an entirely separate bill. That would have allowed us to thoroughly study them in a reasoned, intelligent manner. However, we will not be able to do that.
I have a lot of questions.
One thing you mentioned was the cost associated with registering a trademark. It is true that costs are high for more than 99% of companies. This process is used to register a whole host of trademarks that these companies, quite frankly, will never use. There are, however, some companies that easily have the means to flood the market. For example, when the Internet was first starting up, people registered domain names.
The approach you are talking about seems very naive to me. You said that this won't open the door, that it won't harm a significant number of our companies. However, I'm not entirely convinced that is true.