Justice committee  If there is a well-crafted registry, and first of all, not a registry where everyone found guilty of a sexual assault of any sort is put in it.

Justice committee  No, it's those proposed in Bill C-26—

Justice committee  But as was pointed out previously, in proposed section 11, “The Governor in Council may make regulations”, and we have no idea what they are or what criteria could possibly—

Justice committee  The first thing is that it should not be public. As you can see from our submission, various officers have all said that public registries actually create more danger.

Justice committee  It should only be police registered. It should be used for—

Justice committee  Yes—

Justice committee  —and it should concentrate on those offences that are most likely to result in recidivism. Where there is a particular offender who may be suffering from a paraphilia, that is the sort of thing where police have to have access to knowledge about that particular offender.

Justice committee  It's totally overbroad, sir, and the registry itself would not have as much information about these characteristics—

Justice committee  No, if it's simply expanded—

Justice committee  It's already too broad—

Justice committee  As far as preventing any type of recidivism is concerned or offering protections—

Justice committee  As it relates to public protection or the detection of crime, yes, sir.

Justice committee  Yes. I think it has to be amended.

Justice committee  What I said, sir, is that there was very little evidence that the registries as they exist now have contributed to any sort of safer community or prevented crime—

Justice committee  Yes, sir, I said that.