Industry committee  Yes. Without getting into details, there are all kinds of pieces of information on the legitimate product that lead us back to who made it, who on the production line made it.

Industry committee  I am confident that the big-box stores, certainly in my field, have this under control. The sixth-level distributors, though, are the ones who are liable to be committing the offences, and they're doing it willingly by sourcing this material from totally unauthorized directions,

Industry committee  In the NACC, the U.S. chose regulatory matters as their subject. I understand that one of our colleagues from the U.S. electrical industry raised counterfeiting as an issue that they're trying to deal with. At least that's my understanding. By the way, I took a run at the Canad

Industry committee  As a matter of interest, four of my six samples here have counterfeit labels. They're all domestic recycled materials. You asked what we're doing about the problem. I'd like to tell you about our U.K. adventures. My colleague in the U.K. is the chairman of the U.K. industry as

Industry committee  That's a complicated question. Typically these devices sit silent until there's an electrical problem. Thank God we don't have short circuits and overloads that frequently. When those conditions occur, these devices are expected to function as they were designed and clear the fa

Industry committee  Our industry association, Electro-Federation Canada, wrote a letter to Health Canada two years ago in response to their request for input from Canadians on renewal of the acts. We learned about two weeks ago that the whole program had been shelved.

Industry committee  It was the renewal of the Hazardous Products Act and another act that belonged to Health Canada. We wrote a letter to them declaring that when these products are removed from a building, as in demolition, they become potentially hazardous and should be considered very specifical

Industry committee  We wrote the letter.

Industry committee  It was from a member of Health Canada.

Industry committee  No, it was at an association meeting that Health Canada attended.

Industry committee  Mr. Chairman and honourable members, thank you for this opportunity to appear before you today. My name is Brian Savaria. I'm a professional engineer employed by Eaton Electrical in our Canadian operations in Burlington, Ontario. We manufacture electrical equipment and systems