Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair, honourable members, my name is Graham Henderson. I'm on the steering committee with the Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Network. I'm also the president of the Canadian Recording Industry Association. I would like to summarize the documents that the CACN has provided to t

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair, may I add something?

Public Safety committee  Oh, I'm sorry.

Public Safety committee  The issue of deterrence is an important one, obviously, in terms of what we're looking for. The case study we gave you shows how weak the deterrent effect is. Forgetting about border guards for a minute, you can have a case, and this is entirely typical, where there's a disince

Public Safety committee  On that point, may I direct the committee's attention to a very successful French anti-piracy campaign. It shows a series of French consumers about to buy a Louis Vuitton bag, or whatever it is, and it directs their minds to where the money is going; it's going to organized crime

Public Safety committee  I think absolutely. But what you're seeing there is evidence of very powerful partnerships among the stakeholders, the government, the police, and even the community, to focus on the issue and deal with it. France is an excellent example. Brazil has one of these crime task forces

Public Safety committee  Well, a key component of the report we've prepared has been an effort--as I indicated in my brief notes at the beginning--to connect the intellectual property rights and counterfeiting issues with the innovation agenda. I'm like you, I don't quite get it. But it hasn't just be

Public Safety committee  I believe it was the government. I know it was a government campaign. If you look at it, there were posters that went with it. It's something the committee should probably source and look at because there was a list of all of the different partners that were involved, and it was

Public Safety committee  That's easy. That could be done by regulation. It could be done tomorrow. That's a key thing. But the first question was...oh, yes. We issued a press release. That was a very interesting recommendation because it was organic. The Industry committee went out on cross-country h

Public Safety committee  I guess we're looking to this. We've tabled a series of recommendations here. I think that's what we need now. We need a report with very specific, detailed recommendations. I think the industry committee was a cri de coeur that emerged rather organically, as I say.

Public Safety committee  And fund anti-piracy and anti-counterfeiting. It's a self-generating....

Public Safety committee  Really? There are 450 stores in there, and it's something to behold on a Saturday or a Friday before Christmas, or at any one of the big shopping periods. I know the first time I saw it, I was stunned by what I saw.

Public Safety committee  Because it's not just flea markets. What you're going to see is what looks to you and me like a mall, and there are 140 stores in there.

Public Safety committee  The tax base absolutely is going to be impacted. I'll give you an excellent example: icewine. Icewine is now being counterfeited, and a great example was the Taiwanese marketplace. They were selling successfully into the Taiwanese marketplace; then, all of a sudden, counterfeit i

Public Safety committee  This affects Canadian businesses. Ubisoft is a major employer, I believe, in Mr. Duceppe's riding, and it's one of the top video game manufacturers in the world. You can take an Xbox up to the Pacific Mall and they'll hot-rod it for you. Right now, you can only play legitimate ga