Industry committee  It's a start, but more needs to be done. More teeth need to be implemented in the Trade-marks Act than suggested here in the bill, to allow perhaps, as a summation, the exchange of information between the CBSA agents and property rights holders like ourselves. I'll mention, as

Industry committee  I would say that in my experience of dealing with our law enforcement officials at the front lines, those who are empowered to take action have an effect. We've seen instances, coming out of either national training sessions or online sessions, in which we'll be contacted by on-t

Industry committee  I'll start by saying that from our perspective the detainment and seizure and destruction of the goods exemplified in that model seem to work for us as a brand owner. I think it effectively puts the right amount of resources, whether it's invested by us in conjunction with the CB

Industry committee  Do you mean are there more counterfeits coming in?

Industry committee  I think we're probably on the same track as we were back in 2009-2010, at least at this early stage. I think it will continue to be magnified and to become of even greater concern. As a real-life example, I recently spoke to a small business operator who deals expressly in licens

Industry committee  That's correct. I think, sir, that this is going on currently in our economy and in our commerce supply chain here in Canada. I suspect, dealing with my other fellow brand owners with the NHL and the other major leagues such as NFL and MLB, that they all have the same sort of app

Industry committee  First of all, to answer your question about the market, if it said “Made in Canada”, that's one of the signs we look for, because those jerseys are made in Indonesia through our licensing partner. To clarify that, our on-ice, authentic jerseys that Team Canada will be wearing ar

Industry committee  I would think as a brand owner that we would participate in a fair and equitable amount of investment in the protection of that, but we'd like to see front-line officers given the authority and the power to seize and detain those goods. We'd then like to see a meaningful and cost

Industry committee  Mr. Chairman, honourable members, ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for inviting Hockey Canada to participate in the committee's study of Bill C-8. Hockey Canada is the country's national sport organization. Our association is responsible for the creation and implementat

Industry committee  I can try. Maybe I can be corrected by some of my colleagues about the legislation. They intercepted and detained the jerseys through the Canada Post act, I believe. They notified the intended recipient that they were holding the package because of suspicious circumstances. They

Industry committee  I would support those comments and say that the collaborative approach to educating Canadians would be a very good first step.

Industry committee  It would definitely help, as would empowering front-line officers to target and seize counterfeit product. Several times we've been able to alert the border officials as well to anticipated shipments coming in, but they have said they don't have enough resources to target partic

Industry committee  Absolutely. There's a mix of not only licensed product from sport brands like ours, the NHL, but we'll also see other counterfeit brands of other products, whether it's software or other components, sometimes in containers when the container is opened or inspected.

Industry committee  Just based on the numbers of jerseys that we detained and ultimately destroyed at the Vancouver mail facility—16,000 units—we probably would have lost in excess of a million dollars' worth of royalty revenue that just didn't come into our coffers.

Industry committee  We are, if those numbers are indeed accurate, which we are pretty confident they are.