Thank you for your question.
To begin with, local and provincial authorities already have a procedure to notify the public. Right now, police already identify certain individuals as being high-risk sexual predators and determine that the public should be aware of these individuals for the safety of society. So those resources are already in place.
If this bill is passed, the Canadian government will compile that information across the country. The RCMP will be the authority responsible for compiling the data. After consulting with territorial, provincial and municipal authorities, we will examine public notifications pertaining to people other than high-risk sex offenders to pull the identity of individuals who satisfy the definition of a high-risk sexual predator, and put that information in a public database.
And that Canada-wide database will be administered and maintained by the RCMP. In that connection, the bill sets out a budget of approximately $1.3 million per year for the first 5 years, and $1.17 million for the following years. A total of $169,057 has also been allocated over 5 years for the CBSA notification requirement, in addition to a funding amount of $28,375. That is what it will cost the agency to collect information on high-risk sexual predators when they return to the country, for example.