If you register under the Trade-marks Act, you have a registered trademark in Canada. You have certain rights under our legislation.
If you have a trademark, you have a right under the common law, which would be case law that's evolved over the years. You still have certain rights, but you don't have the statutory rights that are contained in the Trade-marks Act. You don't have the exclusive right to a particular trademark in Canada, which you do if you've registered.
Very often in Canada it takes years to get your trademark registered, and what happens is that many of the very famous trademarks we're dealing with now encountered a counterfeiting problem before they could even get their trademark registered. But they would still have protection. They could still prevent someone else from using it, because that would be like passing off the other product for the unregistered trademark.