Industry committee  Yes. I believe we could provide you with that. We actually have a PowerPoint presentation with some of the major ones, which we use in our training.

Industry committee  I was going to say that today we have criminals who are getting more and more into the counterfeiting area. The companies are also doing more, including brand protection technologies. Microsoft is a leader in that area, and there are other companies. They put enough brand protect

Industry committee  There are numerous technologies that are able to do that. Canada has a company called IDGLOBAL, out of Kelowna, that has synthetic DNA, for lack of a better description. There is RFID--radio frequency. There are chemicals. There are very sophisticated holograms.

Industry committee  Yes. Microsoft, for example, has multi-layered technology. I certainly don't know all the technology they have; some of it has been shown in court. I'm quite confident that they, along with other companies, have multi-layered approaches to the anti-counterfeiting technologies. It

Industry committee  What's practical is to have a group of trained personnel, and you could have more than one of them across the country. They're trained to deal with these kinds of cases. All they have to do is pick up a phone to call the right people in any of these companies and they have their

Industry committee  I think it's important to strengthen the civil remedies, and I think because we're dealing with an illegal activity, the rules of the Federal Court could be streamlined. As well, we could look at things they've done in the U.S., where they've had major task forces in New York Cit

Industry committee  It's simpler than most people think. It's like anything else; when you don't know at all, of course it seems overwhelming. The reality is that just by looking at some simple indicia, you can tell if something is counterfeit or not. For example, you picked Burberry, you picked a l

Industry committee  I agree with your comment. It is moving into retail. When we went in recently to the Pacific Mall, we walked into our first store location at 1:30 p.m. We did three stores. We had about 15 people there. The mall closed at 8 o'clock at night. From the time we walked into the fir

Industry committee  Mr. Chair, I deal with these cases in the following way. When we have a civil case, or when we're dealing with the police without the proceeds legislation, we go in— Let's say, we go in with a court order. We want to get their assets, but we don't have sufficient information abou

Industry committee  I think that would be something decided out in the field, because the reality is that every police force is going to prioritize their work. Every business prioritizes their work in some way. The problem is that you have to have enough resources to handle everything. Otherwise, yo

Industry committee  I want to respond to the question of what the automotive companies are doing. I'll make a general statement. The automotive companies regularly come to anti-counterfeiting conferences worldwide, and they have sophisticated anti-counterfeiting programs, not unlike many of the pe

Industry committee  I think a lot of it has to do with getting out and doing it. Once we put the legislation in place and give people a mandate, we are going to have the intelligence we need to target shipments. Right now we're not targeting shipments. I'm very confident in saying that if we have d

Industry committee  Thank you for that question. The Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Network has members who actively go out and educate the public. There is also a poster campaign, with some posters in English and French, that was done in conjunction with the RCMP. Those posters are in places across

Industry committee  I don't know what the percentages are from Asia, but we know that's the major problem. There's no country, really, that's immune to manufacturing product that is coming into Canada. For example, we had someone go the St-Eustache flea market a few weeks ago, and they reported to m

Industry committee  In October 2000, I believe, there were some changes to the legislation, and customs started looking at shipments. If they found counterfeit, they would contact the RCMP. A regional intelligence officer would pick up the phone and speak to the RCMP. If the RCMP would take the case