I know that it is exactly the same as the provision proposed in amendment NDP-1. Mr. Halucha said earlier that it was already in Bill C-8. Yet a number of witnesses who were involved in the committee's study, including Mr. de Beer, a law professor, and Mr. Knopf, an intellectual property lawyer, told us that they consulted a number of intellectual property experts who expressed concern about the bill's vagueness when it came to parallel imports.
Those experts would like an amendment that states clearly that Bill C-8 will not target parallel imports. We added this so there would be no confusion in Bill C-8 between counterfeit products and parallel imports, which are legal.