I must admit that I don't see a huge amount of difference between the two, and in fact I don't think the law necessarily treats them differently either. Someone who wrongfully practises law using a fake degree is going to be subject to some sort of charges, and the law can crack down on that. As we heard, someone who burns copies of DVDs also faces the prospect of both financial penalties and jail time under the Copyright Act when they intend to distribute these.
So I think the law already seeks to address both of those. As I said in preface to my remarks, no one is suggesting that counterfeiting is a good thing. The second example is more of a fraud than anything else, but to the extent to which these things occur in society, I think everybody would agree that it's appropriate to take action.
I don't know that this is really the question you're facing, though, when we're talking about the “Canadian counterfeiting question”. The question here, as we heard earlier, is, do we already have laws to address many of these issues? I think the answer is yes. Are there some things that are more severe and more problematic than others? I think the answer is again yes.
I'm a father with an eight-year-old, a six-year-old, and a three-year-old, and the stories of exploding batteries and other sorts of health and safety issues scare me too. So when I hear the RCMP—as they said yesterday before the industry committee—say that they have limited resources and with all due respect to the Hollywood studios are going to focus on health and safety first, I'm thankful that this is their perspective. I hope that's the perspective we generally bring to this issue: that there is a difference between an allegedly pirated movie and an exploding battery. If we're going to put resources and attention into some of these issues, then surely it's to protect the health and safety of Canadians.