WINNIPEG – A Winnipeg woman is short hundreds of dollars and has been warned by RCMP to not buy counterfeit goods.
Border agents opened a box from China heading to a home in Winnipeg and found a fake Canada Goose jacket and some bogus NHL jerseys.
“Some people are tricked into thinking they’re buying a good jacket,” said Cpl. John Montgomery with the RCMP federal serious and organized crime division. “The counterfeiters will put an image of an authentic jacket online, you purchase it and of course you get the raccoon dog, duck-feather one.”
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RCMP displayed the fake and a real Canada Goose jacket Thursday.
“It’s easy to tell the difference,” said Dr. Stephen Petersen, head of conservation and research at the Assiniboine Park Zoo. RCMP asked Petersen to get involved and examine the jacket’s fur and filling to determine if it was a fake.
“The fur actually matched to a raccoon dog, which is a species from Asia … For a real Canada Goose jacket they use coyote fur, a nice Arctic cold-weather hardy species,” said Petersen.
The authentic coats, which are manufactured here in Winnipeg, are filled with down, which is a layer of fine feathers. The fake coat was not filled with down, but Chinese domestic duck feathers, which would not keep you warm.
Purchasing a counterfeit product could put you in danger because the products are not tested to see whether they meet safety standards.
No charges were laid against the buyer.
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