Thank you very much, Chair.
Thank you, Minister, for spending some time with us today. You were quite right in your opening remarks that we do indeed share your concerns about counterfeiting and piracy. We're pleased we have the bill before us today so we can look at it in more detail and make sure we are actually addressing the concerns that have been raised by both businesses and consumers. Of course, it's a particular concern for us when we're talking about matters that affect the health and safety of Canadians.
In my questions, I want to focus a bit on the enforcement side.
First of all, I think I'm correct when I say it used to be the courts that made the determination about whether something was counterfeit or was a pirated good, and the courts used to have some difficulty in making that determination from time to time. Now we're taking the courts out of that process, or at least diminishing the courts' role, and we're asking Canada Border Services agents to make that determination.
I wonder if you can tell us a little about the additional training that border officials will receive and what kind of additional resources you'll make available so they can take on this new role. I wonder whether you can also talk a bit about what gives you the confidence that our border officials will be able to make the determinations that the courts have found difficult.