Mr. Chair, thank you.
Panellists, thank you for being here today. It's a very important piece of legislation, and I no doubt want to make sure that our questions reflect that we want to make a very serious study of the legislation.
Ms. Rowden, your suggestion is that somehow the bill before us here is perhaps, to a degree, unnecessary in that many of the protections already exist under the Trade-marks Act.
I'm wondering if you could tell us the definition of “irreparable harm”. Are we really dealing here with a question of timing? It seems to me that the time it takes to get an injunction would probably be far too late to arrest a difficult situation or a problem that might exist in which someone may be infringing on the trademarks. Can you explain to this committee how it is possible that the bill itself may not address that concern?