Industry committee  Sure, I'll speak from a lay perspective because I'm not of a legal mind. In Sweden, we caught someone importing counterfeit. We were alerted by our legal firm in Copenhagen, which operates throughout Scandinavia on our behalf. The police went to that person's home and found plent

Industry committee  I don't know of any leading jurisdictions. I can tell you what the fear is, and that's the infringement of freedom of speech when it comes down to it. Through our participation in the outdoor industry and their anti-counterfeit task force, we learned that when monitoring the Inte

Industry committee  We have over 400. We sell in over 50 countries around the world. Still today, we're growing by 30% year over year. We own two factories in Canada, one in Winnepeg and one in Toronto, and we subcontract another 20-plus. We have taken what was a decimated apparel manufacturing in

Industry committee  I don't know how you can separate the investment in the brand from the company or from any one of us. People buy Canada Goose because it's an authentic, iconic brand. We created the premium outerwear segment in the industry. There are all kinds of brands—or faux brands—that are

Industry committee  I think I started to talk a little bit about it, but we really have to find a way to deal with the online trade of counterfeit product and with protecting our intellectual property. I can only speak for Canada Goose, but we've built a brand that is globally known to represent a p

Industry committee  I can give you a couple of good examples of how we deal with counterfeit, or IP to the same degree. We'll find out through services around the world, say, through the IP crime unit in London that there's been a seizure of counterfeit products crossing the Danish border. Dependin

Industry committee  Thank you very much. Thank you for having me. As some of you know, Canada Goose has been in favour of greater protection of our intellectual property for a long time now. This bill is a great first step in the direction that we need to go in to protect our brand, our IP, and Can

Industry committee  Yes, it's a slow-moving process. I work as well as co-chair on the task force on counterfeiting of the Outdoor Industry Association in the United States, and they've taken a much more aggressive approach on the Internet than we have. It's littered with land mines because of fir

Industry committee  No, we haven't.

Industry committee  That's right.

Industry committee  Thank you, and thank you very much for hearing us today. Canada Goose is a 53-year-old privately held Canadian company. We made a decision decades ago to manufacture all of our product here in Canada. We have rebuilt the apparel manufacturing industry to support this growth. We

Industry committee  You can see that it would be very difficult for anyone who doesn't know to tell the difference. For those of us who do know, the differences are evident, but now that you know what's in that jacket, I hope you can get behind us and help us create some controls at the border to pr