Industry committee  Well, again, I am not familiar with Microsoft or that type of technology, but I would guess that if there are locks and so on, and it's against the law to tamper with them.... It's also against the law to drive 120 kilometres on the 401, but people do it and get away with it. Thi

Industry committee  I would share Mr. Hunter's comments on that, for sure. I think what you're driving at is that it is a huge problem. Everything you do almost sounds like a drop in the bucket. But you do need to start somewhere, probably by educating young children. We have another association t

Industry committee  I would say that in the Canadian community in retail, I don't believe anybody is making deliberate attempts to have inappropriate products on the shelf. I really don't. They have protection in place with the purchasing people. They send inspectors over there themselves. But crimi

Industry committee  Mr. Wallace, I think what the RCMP would tell you is that if the price is too good to be true, it's too good to be true. That's the first indicator. If they were a little smarter, some of these people.... They're looking for quick bucks. It's easier to sell the set of golf clubs

Industry committee  I'm going to ask Mr. Hunter to relate to the committee some of the activity that's going on with chips that are going into products. This is a way to help prevent fraudulent product from coming in. Maybe that partly addresses the question.

Industry committee  Again, it's not an exact science, and numbers are not readily available, so whatever we do find is estimated. One of our members...and if I'm allowed, I'll use the company General Electric, which owns Universal Studios. They feel that, because people are knocking off their DVD

Industry committee  Yes, but you need to start somewhere. Like I said in my notes, I attended an IP conference in Panama that was hosted by Interpol and UL. They referred to numbers that were in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Because of the nature of this, it's difficult to come down with a sc

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Harris, for the question. I don't think you've been given a copy of our notes, but at least four of those points you made were salient points we did want to make, and we have. So yes, we agree that would take us a long way to helping the situation. As we look bac

Industry committee  Thank you for the question. I'm not specifically familiar with the example you've given, so I can't make a comment on that. I think, in general, what we do see is that we have committees like this within our organization, Electro-Federation. We have senior people from a lot of

Industry committee  I'm not really sure. I'm glad that Terry had some comment on it. Your thought of how it gets paid for, that hadn't—

Industry committee  In our organization, a lot of people have a lot of ideas, but to think it right through and see who's going to pay for them is another thing.

Industry committee  How would you like to handle that, Vladimir?

Industry committee  I think they were surprised. The challenge that public works has is to investigate 5,000 buildings that the federal government has across the country. This was the beginning. They wanted some help and some training at the beginning of their survey, to know how they could identif

Industry committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and honourable members of the committee. In particular, thank you to Mr. Wallace, who was helpful in getting us here and spent some time with us over the summer. We thank you for giving us the opportunity to speak with you today on behalf of the

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