I don't think I've made myself clear. The reason I said that these people are in your community and they live next door to you is not so that the RCMP will go banging on a door saying there is somebody in your neighbourhood you should know about. I made that point only to emphasize the huge responsibility they have to protect you, to protect your families, when they put somebody next door to you who is a dangerous person. It's not that you're ever going to be told, but how much supervision do they have on these people? If this person has known character traits that make him a dangerous individual, do they just put him next door to you and walk away and say, “Enjoy your new life”?
If they recommit, I would really like to see that the sentencing judges know that this person isn't a first-time offender, that the sentencing judge knows this person has a criminal past.
To better answer your question, I can't help you with the French analysis, and maybe it is clearer, but everyone should be able to know what the law is. That ignorance of the law is no excuse is a bit of a catch phrase, but you should be able to find out what the law is.
Subsection 11(1) in English says: “Subject to this section, no person shall knowingly disclose, directly or indirectly, information about the location or a change of identity of a protectee or former protectee.” That's not very good English. What does “location” mean? If I say he's in Ontario, am I giving away his location? If he's outside this building, have I given away his location? If he's moved down the street, have I given away his location? When do I give away his location?
If I wander down the streets of Toronto and I go home and tell a family member, “You won't believe who I passed on the street. Remember that big case you saw in the newspaper?”, have I committed an offence?
I don't like this wording much better, but at least in the Witness Protection Act of the State of Queensland—I can tell you that there is a federal act and each state has its own state act, and they almost conflict, so I can't really help you on how the regime works down there. But these statutes do a lot of other things. They allow for disclosure for the purposes of the administration of the act. Your act doesn't.
When the RCMP man told me that my guy was in the witness protection program, I don't see the enabling legislation that he was allowed to tell me that. I don't see in your legislation one cop being able to tell another cop. In other legislation, disclosure for certain purposes of the administration of the act is allowed, but it doesn't seem to be in this statute. In Australia, under the Queensland one but not some of the others, it is an offence where a person must not knowingly, directly or indirectly, disclose or record information about a relevant person as to the witness protection program that may threaten the security of a relevant person or the integrity of the program or other witness protection activities of the commission.