There are a number of jurisdictions that have some sort of process set up at the border to safeguard against counterfeits entering into the country. The United States, of course, being our largest trading partner, has a process in place. While their process is probably well known to a lot of Canadians, I would just hesitate to say that we should just adopt the American way, or strictly adopt the European way.
I think there are best practices to be learned. Since we're entering this now for the first time, I think that it would behoove Canada to take a look at how other jurisdictions are dealing with this and adopt their best practices for boots-on-the-ground processes at the border and create our own way of doing it.
I can say for example that in the United States they have a quite comprehensive methodology at the border. However, it's very paper-driven, literally driven with documents that need to be faxed to various government authorities and whatever. I don't mean to sound flip, but it's a process they probably put in place some time in the 1980s and they're now struggling with how to take that process and automate it. I would suggest that we try to avoid walking in their footsteps and look at how do we can make this a clean 21st century solution for Canadian importers and Canadian business overall right from day one, as opposed to investing in older-type infrastructure and copying some of our trading partners.