Yes, absolutely. Actually, it's a fancy way of saying it, but when I say giving customs officers the ex officio power to seize, that's exactly what I mean.
Right now customs officials do not have the power to seize on their own power things they identify or suspect to be counterfeit or pirated. They can do so only if they have a court order in hand, which a rights holder like me has been able to get—which would mean that I magically understood that the goods were being smuggled across the border and knew when it was going to happen—or if they've received a request from the RCMP to detain. These are the only circumstances in which they can do these sorts of seizures, even if they know, even if they are able to identify it. It's actually customary in most other jurisdictions; they do have the power to seize. That, essentially, is what we're asking for.
To the point that was raised earlier, it's a temporary power. There is the issue that they can suspect, but IP enforcement is one of those areas where law enforcement and rights holders need to cooperate much more closely than do other sectors, because they're going to rely on rights holders to identify what's infringing and what's not.
You want to avoid the possibility of having customs officers seizing stuff that turns out to be legitimate. The issue is basically that they can seize and then they call the rights holder to say they've identified something they think is counterfeit and the rights holder has x amount of time to get down there to let them know whether or not it is counterfeit. If it isn't, then they'll release it into the stream of commerce. This is the kind of measure that has been set up in other jurisdictions, which is the kind of measure we're talking about here.