I really do, as long as we can get those details right and how it operationally happens at the frontier points.
None of my members expressed any concern about customs officers having undue power or being expected to become trademark experts. Those aren't the concerns we're hearing. We are hearing that they're very much in favour of having something, anything, in place today that would stop that Canada Goose shipment I was talking about earlier. Something to give customs officers the authorization and the power to say, “Hmmm, something is suspect here. We're going to detain these shipments at the very least.” Having the power to confiscate them at the border, with evidence from Canada Goose proving them to be counterfeit, so they don't hit the marketplace, that in itself is huge.
Going back to what Mr. Spreekmeester was talking about, online counterfeit, I don't think there's ever going to be—not in this legislation anyway—anything to stop an individual consumer from going online and buying an individual jacket through United Parcel Service or Federal Express or Canada Post, and shipping it to an individual at their home. Even this piece of legislation doesn't try to address that because I don't know how you would. I share my co-testifier's concern with how you tackle online counterfeit, and business directly to consumers. That's a tough nut to crack.
But for business to business, other G-8 countries have tackled this problem. Canada would be well served in following their example.