Certainly, and it's as the minister said: the intention was to get at this predatory conduct before an actual contact sexual offence is committed. And yes, of course, there is an awareness of investigatory practices used by police currently under existing Criminal Code offences as well as those we would envision for this proposed new offence. So yes, this was contemplated.
As I mentioned earlier, I can leave the committee with a couple of cases that show exactly, in the context of luring a child over the Internet, where the defence was successful in one and unsuccessful in another. It was unsuccessful, I might add, with an accused who was a police officer, who obviously was not acting in the course of his duties.
I guess the point, as Inspector Naylor said, is that it is a common practice. We are aware of it.
Obviously police are trained in terms of what the lines are in terms of how far they go with the conduct. But typically they do go on. If you read any of the reported cases, the description will indicate, for example, that a police officer was undercover in a chat room known by the name of the chat room and frequented by like-minded child sex offenders and the like, and he or she engaged in that way.
Again, the common law is very clear on the difference between entrapment and a legitimate investigative practice.