Justice committee  I'll ask Mr. Bird, because it's a legal question.

Justice committee  Our estimate of what the impact of Bill C-18 will be on the labs is exactly that. It's an estimate based on past conviction rates. We feel that our estimate was fairly robust; however, it doesn't anticipate potential changes in municipal priorities or provincial priorities, or ev

Justice committee  Yes, that's it.

Justice committee  I think since the introduction of fingerprints, it probably has made the most significant impact in the forensic role, yes.

Justice committee  If he was arrested and his fingerprints were taken, yes, they would be retained in the fingerprint database in the system.

Justice committee  According to our latest data, about 53% of those would be from primary designated offences, and about 46% from secondary designated offences.

Justice committee  Mr. Chair, I'd like to separate again, just so I can respond to the question, the convicted offender index and the crime scene index. We estimated that changes to the legislation would increase the number of submissions to the convicted offender index by about 10,000 samples a

Justice committee  Without validating any of these data banks by my answer, the answer to your question directly is no, we do not have any agreements, nor would we undertake sharing of the data within those types of data banks with the genetic information within the National DNA Data Bank. Perhaps

Justice committee  Mr. Bird.

Justice committee  Thank you very much. Perhaps I'll address that one, and then I'll ask my colleague David Bird to address your international sharing question. There's no doubt that we deal within a very broad jurisdiction within Canada. The priorities in one area may be different from the priori

Justice committee  I'll take your second question first. The data bank was set up to separate any personal information from the genetic information. In fact, the information resides in two separate indices. The genetic information resides within the National DNA Data Bank. A genetic profile is jus

Justice committee  I'll restrict my remarks to the RCMP because that's the system I understand the most. Within the RCMP forensic labs, samples are collected within any of the jurisdictions in which the RCMP provides policing services, and in fact by other police departments within those areas as

Justice committee  There are three forensic lab systems within Canada. The RCMP has a lab system with forensic laboratories in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Nova Scotia. We provide DNA services from our Vancouver lab, our Edmonton lab, our Regina lab, the Ottawa lab, and the

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  Yes, we did calculate the number of samples that would be increased for the convicted offenders. I believe the number is around 4,400 additional samples.