Thank you to the member, a former long-time police officer who served with the RCMP. I'm also very proud to sit with the member in this government.
Indeed that's it; we want to have better information sharing between the Canada Border Services Agency and those who are in charge of the registry that contains the names of sex offenders. All of the following information on sex offenders is collected on a regular basis. The information that will be shared, whenever it is finished, will be about the high-risk child sex offenders. When a high-risk child sex offender is willing to travel around the world, no matter the length of his stay, the information will be transferred from the RCMP to the CBSA. That would be the individual's given name and surname, every alias the individual uses, the date of birth, the gender, and the number of every valid driver's licence and passport that the individual may hold. The plan is to have these serve as flags for CBSA so that the offender can eventually be diverted to a secondary screening when they re-enter the country. They will have to provide some information to the border services officers, such as when they left, when they are returning, and every address or location where they stayed when outside Canada. This information will be sent back to the national sex offender registry.
This will make sure that if an individual has been identified as a high-risk child sex predator, there will be an ongoing buildup of information related to his travels. If the CBSA or the RCMP have reason to believe it's necessary to carry this information from a specific sexual offender to an authority, they will have the authority to do so in order to prevent or investigate a crime of a sexual nature.