Canada needs to do more to combat counterfeit goods, says industry lobby group

Start charging reasonable prices for the "originals" and you won't be looking to get knocked off, it's quite simple really, the greedy preying on the greedy and the end result is counterfeiting.

Ya know what, its simple, stop marking up the prices so much that lower income Canadians have to choose wether to buy a knockoff of a product they like and can still afford bills and food that week or buy genuine and hurt until next pay. Until this happens, we will continue to buy knockoffs!

It's not the purses or shoes that are a concern, it's the electric appliances that have counterfeit CSA and UL labels on them ( can you say electrocution or fire), or extension cord that caused the fire because it was made from phone wire, or the nuts and bolts that are graded, but fail after your local garage does your brakes. How about the infant milk with malemine or the dog food that killed all those dogs. I think Guicci purses and Prada shoes are the least of our worries.

tks for the corporate propaganda Steve

$200 hockey jerseys - that is what they are protecting.........ewwwww it's "insidious" and dangerous.

You're a shill Steve

I would buy Canadian made counterfeit, before I'll buy Chinese made original, tell me were?

Doesn't matter if it's fake or really. They're all made in CHINA!!!!!!!!!!

Uh, start with the government. Everyone knows they are fakes. As for checking everything that is brought in, try bringing meat here. Almost all loads I ever hauled into US were inspected almost before trailer got to door. Reason: All the stamps had same number. NOW ... bring meat into Canada ... EVERY skid removed, and checked over for any marks of tampering, numbers matched etc. A fun ordeal. Just giving this example so to show we do some inspecting of stuff and sometimes it is done well. As for the other stuff. Kind of hard as it is usually brought in on Sea Can Boxes, with sealed doors. Unless you are willing to take ownership of the load and be responsible fully then go ahead. Until then, just use common sense. If it a fake, use your own spending desires, and don't complain.
I'm off to my counterfeit beer company to put water into cans and brown and green glass bottles and sell it a super ridiculous low price. Think label will say extra light for you health conscious drinkers.

Call the warranty office. The number is fe fo fi fo fo fi fi

With corporatism ruling the roost in most areas of goods and services as well as manufacturing, counterfeit is nothing more than a way to level the playing field with what used to be called competition!

There are fakes made in India, Pakistan, most Asian countries esp. from china. Awareness people, know what you're buying. Even cell phones are fakes.

Another Yahoo confusing headline or am I just stupid to think they were referring to food?

Someone can alway make something cheaper. People buy the copies because they are satisfied with the products. The high taxation and consequent high production and transportation costs make the originals expensive.
Leave the copiers alone.!!! This is nothing more than government interference and protectionism under another name.

Wallmart made in China Legalized Organized Crime?

Maybe Harper is building Super Jails to put consumers of knock-off goods in them. Knowingly buying counterfiet products like pirated movies etc.,is against the law.
" receiving stolen goods, aiding and abetting in the commission of the offence."

All this counterfeit crap coming into Canada is an outlet for organized crime in China. Until all goods coming in are inspected it's only going to get worse as other Countries clampdown. Right now most counterfeit selling is punished by seizing the vendors stock, this has to be escalated to heavy fines that will go towards inspecting more shipping containers at the docks. I'll bet you didn't know that there's so much coming in to Canada, that only 2% is inspected and there are at least 12 ships containing 1100 to 2500 containers waiting to be unloaded at any given time 24 hrs a day 7 days aweek.

What a lot nof Rubbish-That is why all the occupiers are out there protesting-because these huge corporations want to soak up all the money in the world and leave nothing for the common man who is happy just to lead a simple life-so the Govt comes up with all this non sense verbiage just to try to justify their evilness in busting common folk and confiscating their property-GO after the drug addicts and kill them-and the rubbish greedy lawyers and ploiticians.They have outlawed Monarchy-now they all want to live like Kings and try to justify their huge salaries with rubbisg double speak like this.Sorry mate-its african poverty for you in your next life.Waste not-want not.

The biggest conterfeit is Politicians passing themselves off as human beings

In 1964 I paid $410.00 for pneumatic ratchet that Now sells for $25.00, Made in China. Consider inflation of money and then try to convince me who the bad guys are.

Organized crime?
Some organized better than others.
Legalized organized crime can be more profitable than the counterfeit organized crime.

This is utter nonsense. Our country has a high standard of quality products and quality inspectors. Just to get people scrapping again. Bah humbug.