Of course, the Copyright Modernization Act, which spanned two Parliaments, the previous Parliament and the current Parliament, and which we adopted after having considered a great many amendments from opposition parties—some of which were included in the legislation, I should point out as well—was also arrived at after a great deal of consultation. You will remember that when Minister Clement was the Minister of Industry, you were the parliamentary secretary to him at the time, I was the Minister of Heritage, and we went across the country, consulted with Canadians, and drew ideas on how to best address the need for modernized copyright legislation. We arrived at a pretty effective, if I might say so, piece of legislation that protects Canadian intellectual property rights.
This legislation is not about the domestic aspect of intellectual property protection, but the international, which is to say, empowering the CBSA and the RCMP with the tools they need to actually prosecute, and also empowering rights holders with the mechanisms they require to trigger action at a border when they know their goods are being pirated and counterfeited and their intellectual property is being betrayed in the marketplace. This is an obvious follow-through. We have the domestic legislation and its teeth and its infrastructure to protect intellectual property domestically. This is about protecting intellectual property on an international scale.