Industry committee  The powers the legislation currently gives us when it comes to forgeries is limited. We've already discussed this. To determine whether they really are parallel imports, the importers and copyright holders must be consulted. We are going to work with our external partners to esta

Industry committee  I'll clarify my comment earlier. There are mechanisms that exist to report to Parliament annually on departmental operations. We would incorporate that reporting on the operationalization of IPR as part of that mechanism, the annual report to Parliament. It wasn't suggesting that

Industry committee  Thank you. Yes, there are mechanisms currently that would allow departments to report annually on their activities. CBSA, as part of the Public Safety portfolio, would consider the implementation of this bill as part of that regular annual reporting. Therefore, it wouldn't be a

Industry committee  Great. Thank you. I have a couple of points, and my colleague may have more to add. It's similar to our conversation previously. In the cases of suspected goods, they are not necessarily infringing goods, so there is a process of determining through the court whether what is be

Industry committee  May I answer in English?

Industry committee  Okay, I am sorry. Finally, at the end of the civil court action, rights-holder costs will typically be included, as I mentioned, in the final court judgment.

Industry committee  There's just one point of clarification I hadn't mentioned earlier. If they go through the court process, and, in fact, those goods are found to be infringing, they could be awarded damages through the court, which would include the cost of storage and holding onto those goods. I

Industry committee  Bill C-8 as written does give the Minister of Public Safety and CBSA broad discretion with respect to addressing issues of bad faith from a request for assistance that may be frivolous or vexatious and which could—as you mentioned—have impacts on an importer. There is a process.