In answer to the question of what the motivator is for the international sharing of DNA profiles, it's simply public safety. It's recognized that Canada has been one of the actual prime movers to encourage international sharing of DNA at the G8 level during sessions there, recognizing that the limited number of sharing that has gone on between Canada and the United States has been very useful in identifying international sexual predators who have committed sexual assaults in Canada and then travelled to the U.S. and Mexico, in various cases. Through sharing of DNA profiles from our crime scenes or foreign crime scenes among the three countries, we have identified international sexual offenders. And on Canadian tourists who have been assaulted abroad, through analysis in the Canadian national data bank or labs, we have been able to share that information internationally, which has allowed us to detect the perpetrators of these offences and bring them to justice in whatever system they were in at the time.
That has assisted dramatically. Those experiences convinced Canadian officials that we should do this on a broader basis internationally to ensure that international sexual predators, international organized crime figures, and potentially terrorists can be detected early in precursor offences, if that's what they're involved with, or in linking serious crimes that they're committing together, so that the nature and scope of these criminal organizations and predators can be assessed and quickly stopped.
Really the prime motivating reason we need to do this, or we feel we should be doing this, is to ensure that, as early as possible, we can connect these various criminal organizations and crime scenes together.