Thank you.
I'm on another committee called the public safety committee. We were considering national security, I believe, with Mr. Comartin, in the last Parliament, and we were looking at counterfeit goods. I want to lead to how we feed organized crime. There's an importation of foreign goods. Any one of the witnesses can answer this—police witnesses, perhaps the chief in Halifax.
We were dealing with two types of counterfeit goods at the time. Some of them were fashionable items, like your Rolex watch that really isn't, or your Louis Vuitton purse. I made the horrible statement of saying no purse was worth $3,500, and a lot of the ladies disagreed. I'd like you to inform the people of Canada about what they're really doing when they go out and get these so-called deals to impress their friends who think they're the real thing.
Some of those counterfeit goods that we looked at were actually goods that we use every day. We were shown extension cords that, when you took the plastic off, contained very little metal, just little hairs of them. In buying such a product, people not only support criminal manufacturers but also endanger themselves and their fellow citizens.
Perhaps the superintendent or the chief could answer this question, and then maybe the chief could follow up.