I'll jump in quickly.
They are not looking to modify software at any point. All they are looking for from the OEMs is the information to make their product work.
In the case of Honey Bee, they don't necessarily need the software; they just need access to the information to make their product work. If they can't get that.... They can't buy a copy of the software to be able to find that information. John Deere now has that proprietary physical connector. It's illegal for them to reverse-engineer it. John Deere is not selling an adapter to all the other competitors to be able to make their product connect.
Some of that is competition. Some of that is taken care of by Brian's bill, which, hopefully, he can bring forward down the road.
It's a multi-faceted issue, but a lot of it comes down to certainty within the Copyright Act. In order for them be able to circumvent a TPM to get the information they need, they need the clarity within the act.
In the United States, the exemption has existed for 10 or 11 years to be able to circumvent a TPM to access information to make a product interoperable. We don't have that in Canada. That's what we try to.... We kind of do, but not to the extent the Americans do. That's what we're trying to accomplish with this bill. It's to match what the Americans have by what the end result is. It's not the same mechanism. Their system is different, obviously, in how they achieve it, but we're trying to get the same level of exemption that the Americans have so that we're on a level playing field with them. We're also trying to be able to encourage industry to continue to innovate.