Sonnier also said the decision highlights the need to make trademark counterfeiting a crime in Canada and to grant Customs officers in Canada ex-officio authority to seize counterfeit goods at the border.

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Some foreign businessmen, as well as many locals, think that the ex-communists might prove successful at tackling the petty corruption of civil servants, especially customs officials and judges, which is the bane of private initiative in Mongolia.

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