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 whether they are in fact counterfeit goods.
Today when counterfeit goods are declared, they're declared as a sweater or a shirt or a.... There's no difference when we process the information, because we have no authority to detain those goods. In some cases, rights holders will go to court and get a court order to get the assistance of the CBSA in getting a specific exporter, a specific shipment, and we cooperate with stakeholders when we are mandated by the court to do so.
For the CBSA, we value and are looking forward to those new authorities that will help us protect those copyrights.