Public Safety committee  No. Often even reputable department stores sell counterfeit goods unknowingly. It's the person who imported them who got good quality, put the right labels on, he's the person who's making us lose all this money. From what I understand, the policy is not to go after retail counte

Public Safety committee  Yes, and that's where the price goes up fast on the lost goods, you're right. But $10, $10,000, maybe they throw it into their figure, but it goes up fast. It goes up very fast.

Public Safety committee  It's a fair assessment. There's industrial property and intellectual property. This is an old distinction we used to make; I think it was sort of dropped by those two departments.

Public Safety committee  No, but you also have to keep in mind that in Europe there are some very interesting recourses that allow rights' owners to go from jurisdiction to jurisdiction in counterfeiting situations, which I can't expand on right now. With those torpedo recourses, they've really—notwith

Public Safety committee  But that's the thing everyone thinks of. You have to look at it this way. At the Burlington Coat Factory in the United States—it's a very big reputable discount store—I had a case where they were selling very good quality fake Burberry. Just one individual imported the stuff from

Public Safety committee  I can't answer that.

Public Safety committee  I mentioned a few initiatives from the civil remedy point of view and the recordation system, with customs beefing up some resources, training. Regarding the IP bar in Canada, we're used to giving training sessions. All the experienced counsel would be very happy to help with t

Public Safety committee  Excuse me, or a new anti-counterfeiting act.

Public Safety committee  For me, the ideal situation would be to beef up the criminal section...a lot of the suggestions you've received. I think my suggestion is that if it's a question of competition for scarce resources and there are serious worries about abuse in the criminal system and the fact that

Public Safety committee  I'll answer like a good lawyer. I think this statement is quite correct. I don't think the United States, necessarily, should dictate our decisions on our own legislation. The United States have in fact, to be quite frank, themselves not followed up on their own treaty obligation

Public Safety committee  I agree with the last comment on the basis of fairness. I know everything is a question of resources and compromise when it comes to legislating one problem vis-à-vis another. There are competing interests. I still think one of the inexpensive ways is to make it easier for the p

Public Safety committee  I can see, from my files, that we normalize more and more that kind of behaviour. Logically, when a behaviour is penalized—as Mr. Hoffert said earlier—it raises the tolerance level for illegal activities and make them more prevalent. Furthermore, with modern digital technologies,

Public Safety committee  I think that we should establish a registration system. Products and trademarks should be watched by customs officers. Furthermore, they should create an offence for possessing counterfeit products for resale purposes. Furthermore, the legislation should provide for higher penalt

Public Safety committee  That's correct. The provisions are there. The enforcement, however, in criminal court is very difficult and arduous. Usually the problem isn't really there. If you're lucky enough to find the DVD and then lucky enough—We had to take the DVD, send it to California, locate the ori

Public Safety committee  I don't know.