Mr. Speaker, as I said, these changes absolutely benefit small businesses.
These treaties, by the way, were signed back in 2001. It is our government that is taking action to implement them. They protect the interests of small businesses.
It is true there are those, of course, in the Canadian Bar Association, others who represent lawyers and patent lawyers, who want to be able to charge small businesses $3,500 to $5,000 to register patents in 20, 40, 50 countries around the world.
We stand with small businesses. We stand with those businesses that are dependent on intellectual property so that they can have their patents registered in Canada and recognized on the global level so that they can move forward and engage and be successful on the international scene.