I'll answer like a good lawyer. I think this statement is quite correct. I don't think the United States, necessarily, should dictate our decisions on our own legislation. The United States have in fact, to be quite frank, themselves not followed up on their own treaty obligations in such areas as patent law, for example. They complicate things for people from other countries who apply there.
I much prefer to use the fairness criteria. It's neutral. We don't get into arguments about whether it's organized crime, millions of dollars that are lost, or batteries. We don't have to argue whether it's electric goods, people, pretexting, or that we need safety in batteries. I think when we stick to a simple question of fairness and respecting the law and really putting in stronger civil remedies, at least, that don't cost much, we avoid a lot of this unnecessary debate.
I understand Mr. Geist's frustration with all those amazing statistics you get. They're very difficult to follow up on and they are contradictory.