For us, there are a couple of key elements that would improve the process. I mentioned partly the completeness of the request. Another element of that is training our consular officials to red flag cases, for example, involving child sex offenders so that they come to the headquarters, and then we can make a determination, working among our experts, as to what we should do with those particular cases. When we do examine those cases and bring the experts to bear and determine that there's a public interest in the information being shared, then we do so with the RCMP, and we provide the appropriate caveats and the context in which the individual has been found guilty. I think we're on the right road to do this.
The additional thing we're doing is that we have a process now where we're going back to all of our data banks and looking at all of those Canadians who have been charged and are imprisoned to determine whether or not the prison charges were specifically for child sex offenders, and then making decisions about whether or not that information will be proactively shared with the RCMP. In all those cases we notify the Privacy Commissioner as well. We provide that information, again, with the caveats and the context.
We're not just sitting and waiting for the RCMP to come to us. We have a proactive process now by which we will share the information.