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Industry committee Basically, the bill provides us with an additional tool by creating a system trademark and copyright owners will use to inform us that they own those rights. Our officers inspect commercial shipments crossing our borders on a daily basis. They can even inspect shipments that con
November 4th, 2013Committee meeting
Martin Bolduc
Industry committee They do. We leverage that technology but also rely on the training we provide our officers in detecting counterfeit goods. Along with the RCMP we leverage the expertise that is out there from the rights holders and also from other border management organizations in the world that
November 4th, 2013Committee meeting
Martin Bolduc
Industry committee We will rely on intelligence and targeting. In regard to trying to intercept a shipment of illegal drugs, there are a lot of similarities between that and a shipment of counterfeit goods. We will rely on indicators, try to leverage that information, which we do day in, day out on
November 4th, 2013Committee meeting
Martin Bolduc
Industry committee What we will do between the time this bill gets royal assent and coming into force is to work with the industry to try to develop that training guide to help our officers detect and interdict these goods. The industry has the ability, the expertise, and we will leverage that int
November 4th, 2013Committee meeting
Martin Bolduc
Industry committee It's not the role of the CBSA, but I think working in partnership with colleagues from the RCMP and Industry we can use what we see at the border to feed into—
November 4th, 2013Committee meeting
Martin Bolduc
Industry committee On a daily basis, 5,600 agency officers work at various ports of entry. Every day, 27,000 commercial shipments cross the border; 9,000 of them arrive through the airports and 5,400 arrive by sea, in containers. Last year, the agency processed more than 14.2 million commercial shi
November 4th, 2013Committee meeting
Martin Bolduc
Industry committee In the case of imported commercial goods, the storage is managed by the private sector. Those goods are not necessarily stored in the agency's stockrooms. They are put into sufferance warehouses that belong to private companies. That's how things are already being done. In cases
November 4th, 2013Committee meeting
Martin Bolduc
Industry committee It gives us the ability to leverage the expertise that the rights holders have, but also to draw on colleagues from other border management organizations around the world with which we have a long-standing working relationship, such as the United States and Australia, to leverage
November 4th, 2013Committee meeting
Martin Bolduc
Industry committee As I mentioned earlier, our front-line officers have remained constant at 5,600 or so. In the DRAP reductions, there was no impact to the front line, so we are confident. Again, this is the reality of the CBSA every day: process information, refer shipments for examination, detai
November 4th, 2013Committee meeting
Martin Bolduc
Industry committee I don't have the specific data for last year, but physical inspection ranges from leveraging technology—you know, X-rays, what we call a VACIS machine, where we're able to see the inside of a container—open the doors, and verify the content of the container, or a full offload of
November 4th, 2013Committee meeting
Martin Bolduc
Industry committee We will have to include those new responsibilities in our targeting priorities. Again, in the large number of inspections we do, we are confident that we will be able to assume the responsibility and what is asked of the CBSA.
November 4th, 2013Committee meeting
Martin Bolduc
Industry committee The importer would pay for the storage costs. The way it works is, the majority of the time these goods move from the border to, let's say, Montreal, inbound. So they move on an inbound carrier. They're brought into the warehouse. This is an inbound warehouse that is privately ow
November 4th, 2013Committee meeting
Martin Bolduc
Industry committee It's 10 days as soon as we inform the rights holders.
November 4th, 2013Committee meeting
Martin Bolduc
Industry committee Right now, our officers from time to time do find counterfeit goods, but the CBSA has no authority to detain or seize those shipments. The big advantage of the proposed bill is that it will give us the ability to detain and, in partnership with the rights holder, to confirm wheth
November 4th, 2013Committee meeting
Martin Bolduc
Industry committee Let's take the example of sweaters. Right now, there's nothing the CBSA can do. If we go with goods that could represent a danger to the safety and security of Canadians, then the CBSA has the ability to refer to and seek the help of the RCMP or Health Canada. We do so on a daily
November 4th, 2013Committee meeting
Martin Bolduc