Industry committee  The CBSA already focuses with colleagues from the RCMP on counterfeit cigarettes. We have seizures happening. I'm not sure this bill would particularly focus on cigarettes, but I do believe we have the tools we need to be able to take action.

Industry committee  We're guided by the Customs Act. In this particular case, the detention is for 10 days. There's a possibility to get an extension. But if within the first 10 business days nothing happens, then the goods are released from CBSA detention. We're guided by the Customs Act, which

Industry committee  CBSA has no specific data as to.... We have no authority to take action today. What we have already started doing is engaging with other customs organizations to get a sense of what they are seeing. As you know, many countries have IP legislation and are able to get a sense of e

Industry committee  Right now, our officers from time to time do find counterfeit goods, but the CBSA has no authority to detain or seize those shipments. The big advantage of the proposed bill is that it will give us the ability to detain and, in partnership with the rights holder, to confirm wheth

Industry committee  Let's take the example of sweaters. Right now, there's nothing the CBSA can do. If we go with goods that could represent a danger to the safety and security of Canadians, then the CBSA has the ability to refer to and seek the help of the RCMP or Health Canada. We do so on a daily

Industry committee  It's 10 days as soon as we inform the rights holders.

Industry committee  I don't have the specific data for last year, but physical inspection ranges from leveraging technology—you know, X-rays, what we call a VACIS machine, where we're able to see the inside of a container—open the doors, and verify the content of the container, or a full offload of

Industry committee  We will have to include those new responsibilities in our targeting priorities. Again, in the large number of inspections we do, we are confident that we will be able to assume the responsibility and what is asked of the CBSA.

Industry committee  The importer would pay for the storage costs. The way it works is, the majority of the time these goods move from the border to, let's say, Montreal, inbound. So they move on an inbound carrier. They're brought into the warehouse. This is an inbound warehouse that is privately ow

Industry committee  As I mentioned earlier, our front-line officers have remained constant at 5,600 or so. In the DRAP reductions, there was no impact to the front line, so we are confident. Again, this is the reality of the CBSA every day: process information, refer shipments for examination, detai

Industry committee  In the case of imported commercial goods, the storage is managed by the private sector. Those goods are not necessarily stored in the agency's stockrooms. They are put into sufferance warehouses that belong to private companies. That's how things are already being done. In cases

Industry committee  It gives us the ability to leverage the expertise that the rights holders have, but also to draw on colleagues from other border management organizations around the world with which we have a long-standing working relationship, such as the United States and Australia, to leverage

Industry committee  On a daily basis, 5,600 agency officers work at various ports of entry. Every day, 27,000 commercial shipments cross the border; 9,000 of them arrive through the airports and 5,400 arrive by sea, in containers. Last year, the agency processed more than 14.2 million commercial shi

Industry committee  What we will do between the time this bill gets royal assent and coming into force is to work with the industry to try to develop that training guide to help our officers detect and interdict these goods. The industry has the ability, the expertise, and we will leverage that int

Industry committee  It's not the role of the CBSA, but I think working in partnership with colleagues from the RCMP and Industry we can use what we see at the border to feed into—