I am not sure I follow you.
Mr. Churney, are we creating a new database or are we simply saying that the current sex offender database is public and accessible to everyone?
I will stand corrected if I am wrong, but my understanding was that the database includes individuals convicted of sexual offences who are at high risk of committing crimes of a sexual nature. It is not the same thing as the existing database that the RCMP and other police forces are used to working with and that includes all sex offenders.
A new database with information is being created. Section 5 of the High Risk Child Sex Offender Database Act refers to the database in section 4. In that light, I am not sure I can follow your reasoning that the information is already published. We are going around in circles.
In my view, before making the information public, we should make sure that the information mentioned in section 5 will not make it possible to identify a victim. I don't think anyone would want Bill C-26 to help identify victims.
You are talking about a database, but I would like that to be clear. Are you referring to the existing database? I don't think so, because there would be no point in what you are doing right now.