In terms of the objective of the bill, which is to take away barriers to interoperability to improve businesses like Honey Bee and other agricultural parts manufacturers, the issue is just a technical one. The current CUSMA section on technological protection measures and exceptions to them doesn't allow for non-infringing exceptions. In the way Bill C-294 is drafted, it seems that it would allow non-infringing exceptions, at least in some cases. It really gets down to a drafting issue.
I'm not talking about the broad policy issue here. It's that, as currently drafted, the bill would put us offside with CUSMA, and in particular of article 20.66.
I'd like to ask my colleague, Catherine Lovrics, if she has additional comments.