Industry committee  Only to discover that the certificates are forged and counterfeit themselves. It's a terrific problem.

Industry committee  The World Customs Organization has identified China as, I think, the source of about 80% to 90% of the counterfeit goods. That's not to say that it's all manufactured in China, but it's the source. It could start someplace else, end up on a boat in Hong Kong, and come over here.

Industry committee  It's not lost on anyone elsewhere what's happening here. If you were a counterfeiter and you knew that the Port of Vancouver wasn't searching, detaining, ceasing, destroying, or doing anything, because they couldn't, where would you send your products? Would you send them to Port

Industry committee  They're covert, they're sophisticated, they know what we're looking at, they know where we're looking, and they know how to evade it.

Industry committee  I was just going to add that we know that intellectual property rights have now soared to the top of U.S.-Canada trade issues. For those of us here who are in business, we find that perplexing. We're a sophisticated democratic nation. This doesn't make sense. When you look at the

Industry committee  I think the answer to that is to accept our report. This has been languishing in the wilderness. The recommendations are not overly complex; they're very straightforward. Some of them could be done by regulation. It doesn't require overhauling statutes; it's very straightforward.

Industry committee  What they found when they examined it was that they had the artwork for Spider-Man 3 and they stuck in Spider-Man 2. That's what it was. So there is no honour among thieves.

Industry committee  I think it just shows that we lack the will to deal with what is an extremely obvious problem. The idea that this hasn't been studied enough is incorrect. Not only has it been studied at length in Canada—and we have produced a report, which, I might add, only took us six months,

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of Parliament. My name is Graham Henderson. In addition to being president of the Canadian Recording Industry Association, I'm also on the steering committee of the Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Network. It's on their behalf that it's my pleas

Public Safety committee  [Inaudible--Editor]...it's probably too good a bargain. That's one way.

Public Safety committee  There is a very interesting fact about this business. When you ask Canadians, if you were told that it was organized crime that was getting the proceeds, what would you do, fifty percent of them say they'd buy the legitimate product. So there's a direct translation. If you can st

Public Safety committee  I might add that the chief coroner for Ontario made a number of formal recommendations following that case, one of which was that the current resources allocated to the elimination of counterfeit medication should be reviewed, and number two, that existing statutes and regulation

Public Safety committee  It's hard to give an overarching number. I know the RCMP has reported that this is a billion-dollar business. As to the effect on Canadians, we have lots and lots of anecdotal examples that we can give you. For example, the software industry estimated that losses from business s

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