Thank you.
I have two questions and a comment to the minister.
As I see it, this bill is simply remedial and technical. We ought to try to get it through committee here as quickly as we can and get it back to the House for a disposition there.
Ms. Freeman raised the issue of exchange of information from the DNA data bank with countries outside of Canada. As my first question, I want to clarify that what we're sending is a DNA identification profile only. It allows someone to make an identification of a person, but it doesn't provide other genetic indicators that might convey personal information related to the person's genetics. Or that's how you were able to describe that to me yesterday; I'd just like confirmation on that, for the record.
Secondly, our research shows that the data bank, not the forensic labs but the data bank itself, is operating well within capacity, as you've said, but that the frequency of the taking of DNA samples for the data bank is operating at about one-half. In other words, in terms of the primary offences that would allow the taking of DNA for the bank, we're only getting to about one-half of those.
I'm inquiring of the Department of Justice, what, if anything, would you be doing to enhance the proportion of cases, primary offences, where the sampling was taken to beef up the data bank, as is intended in the public interest?