Industry committee  Well, I can give you an example where legislation was introduced and it had a profound effect on the marketplace. It wasn't film, but it was music. The legislation in question was the French law that was introduced to bolster the intellectual property regime in terms of protectin

Industry committee  I think that's important. We're trying to keep up. We're trying to level the playing field. We're trying to harmonize our laws with those in the international community. But there's no question that it is a frustration. My experience with government is that unless you keep puttin

Industry committee  No, there's best practices too.

Industry committee  The lack of ex-officio powers, and I'm not an expert in the area, essentially means that border service agents don't have the power, on their own, to detain suspected counterfeit goods. It requires court orders. If it's Nike shoes, they can't communicate with Nike. If it's Louis

Industry committee  It has been variously estimated, but you can be certain that it is in the billions. I think I remember the Ontario Chamber of Commerce doing a study that suggested it was $9 billion for Ontario. If I recall correctly, the road map for change, the Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Netw

Industry committee  I'm not sure I agree. I think the distinction is between invention and innovation, not intellectual property and innovation. The governments around the world have become very good at targeting investment. If you look at how the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario i

Industry committee  Yes, it is connected to jobs. Implementing those recommendations is not expensive. The IP crime task force cost something like $25 million. I think what we have to remember is that these are billion-dollar problems that we're trying to solve, and I think we all, all taxpayers,

Industry committee  I agree with that. Again, I think there's a large role for business. If you look at the various accelerator centres, I think that type of initiative is extremely important in order to promote the diffusion of ideas. I think CIPO, I'll go back to that, has to be empowered. I th

Industry committee  I'm not sure what the answer to that would be. I didn't know that was the case.

Industry committee  But it's also businesses' job.

Industry committee  That was the reason Lucas and Manley put together the Coalition for Action on Innovation, which published its report in 2010. There is now an association, the Centre for Business Innovation, which was opened under the auspices of the Conference Board of Canada. I'm a steering com

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  Yes, because I don't think there are going to be prosecutions.

Industry committee  To bring us back to that, I agree there is a real distinction between the two. I actually think we dealt with the one, in large part, through the copyright reform act. In a certain sense, that job can be pushed off to one side. There are things we have to follow up. As far as p

Industry committee  Well, obviously there's going to be a broad range of voices you're going to want to hear from. As I've sat here listening to some of the comments being made, I can think of multiple witnesses. I would be delighted to submit to the committee a list of people who would be here in a