But if it gets there because it happens to be another type of offence, it has gone through a court martial, then it's there and it needs to be removed.
What I'm saying is if Parliament, in amending the Criminal Records Act to add section 6.1, felt it was required to put in that section to purge CPIC of an absolute discharge, or a conditional discharge after the conditions have been met and whatever follows—an automatic removal of that, if that was felt necessary—then why wouldn't it be necessary to put in an additional step that we're talking about here? This is to make sure the CPIC records are purged and we don't have people being denied entry to the United States, or whatever other consequences flow, which Justice LeSage pointed out in saying that he wanted “...to avoid consequences totally disproportionate to the violation”.
That's what we're trying to achieve. I think this section is not overly intrusive. It basically says that the references to those offences be removed from the CPIC database. That's our position.