The key benefits of ratifying those treaties are mainly for Canadian businesses, the innovators. They have been developed internationally to develop a system to facilitate...and some administrative provisions, as we indicated. By acceding to those treaties, Canadian businesses and innovators will have, on the administrative side, less burden so it will facilitate their jobs. It's friendlier. We have provisions to reduce some of the paper burden, for example, by having electronic filings. The act still refers to paper documents. Some reductions of costs.... We talked about the grace period. It also can facilitate foreigners if they want to file industrial design in Canada, and the same thing for the patents, because we're talking about national rights so foreigners come to Canada, and it helps to bring inventions from outside to Canadians. It helps both on the innovations and on the use of technology for design.
On November 6th, 2014. See this statement in context.