Mr. Doug Geralde at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On April 30th, 2007. See this statement in context.

April 30th, 2007 / 4:55 p.m.

Director, Corporate Audits and Investigations and Chair of the Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Network, CSA International

If I may comment on it, I'd like to say in alignment with that—and CACN feels this way—that there is a lot that we have to do ourselves.

One of the arguments I get from China is that Canada is no better. It's an embarrassment to go there, with the legislation and the porous activities we have. We have to key in on this. We have to do it ourselves, in addition to the others.

Clearly we're in with countries that are developing nations, as opposed to being a leader at the level we should be. It's imperative that we work on these things and take those recommendations seriously: enhancing the border services—

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