Thank you for that question.
Here is my issue and here is the reality, another working example. We received a telephone call from the police that there was a seizure of a shipment that contained 39 different brands. With the value of each brand in each unit—there might have been 12 or 13 items per brand—it would have been less expensive for our firm's clients to purchase the counterfeit items from the importer than to deal with the seizure of that counterfeit in any other way, whether it were assisting the police or through some form of request for assistance.
Right now, the way the bill is drafted, the right's holder essentially has to write a blank cheque to the Canadian government to participate in this program, without any idea of how much money it's going to cost to participate. Brands require certainty and this bill doesn't provide it.
I can tell you that if the pendulum is swinging, it's way more in favour of the importer than it is of the rights holder. That's what we're trying to have swing back to the rights holder, to say that we, as a government, want to eliminate counterfeit goods. We all agree that they're harmful. Let's do it and let's do it the right way. That's why I'm here today.