Public Safety committee  Just to modify that a bit, Canada is not a large source country of counterfeit goods.

Public Safety committee  Yes, we know that. It's estimated that most of it comes from places like China, Russia, various other countries. There are estimates out there. Canada is not a huge source country of counterfeit.

Public Safety committee  I'm not sure of the specific case. Obviously there is the capacity to do so. Again, it's not clear that Canada would be a major producer. My understanding of those types of goods, in terms of mass production, is that often they are done in other countries. There are cases of prod

Public Safety committee  I would like to thank members of the committee for the attention they have displayed to this issue. Obviously it's one we all take very seriously, and we're trying to work as quickly as possible to address the gaps in Canada's regime. But we are also continuing to work with our p

Public Safety committee  We're looking at that now in the context of the OECD study, but it's very difficult as well. When you're talking about percentage of the world trade, does that include things that can't be counterfeited, like commodities such as oil—although if they can counterfeit eggs, maybe th

Public Safety committee  The short answer is that we're looking at all of the possibilities to try to improve the regime. Things like sharing of information are part of it. We do have to also look at the consistency with our privacy laws and everything else when we look at putting things like that into p

Public Safety committee  We never got to the point of putting forward an MC. That's usually when a lead minister is....

Public Safety committee  It's usually the policy department--my understanding anyway--that develops the recommendations, and then the justice department assists to develop the legal framework to implement those policies.

Public Safety committee  This is a joint responsibility. The question--

Public Safety committee  The question was is there one minister who is responsible for this. There is not one minister--

Public Safety committee  We haven't got to that stage.

Public Safety committee  It's to look at the holistic kind of approach of what we need to do in Canada to address these issues. It's to put the framework in place, to put the resources, and to see what kinds of resources we need to address this.

Public Safety committee  Oh yes.

Public Safety committee  Who are we going to report to? Because everyone has a piece of the pie, everyone really has to be aware of that and be in agreement with the recommendations that we're going to put forward. So basically, by and large, most of the agencies and departments need to have ownership of

Public Safety committee  We're working as hard as we can to bring something soon.