Thank you.
My answer to that question is that I don't know what crimes or offences the registry would be able to solve or prevent. From what little I do know about the registry, albeit it is little, I have yet to see any empirical evidence that it works for any offence. That's not to say I don't think it could; it's very possible, and I'm open to that. It's simply that in order to be satisfied that we are conforming to the principles of fundamental justice when we enact certain laws, we should be doing so with not too broad an objective and we should have an understanding of what it is the legislation is going to solve, the problem we're going to solve. Is there evidence that a particular solution will solve that problem? I haven't seen it. I'm open to seeing it. I hope the registry will solve some problems, but I wonder where the evidence is that it can, does, or will.
It's true that if a first offender commits an offence, the registry will not catch that person because that person has not been convicted before. The registry is only for someone who has been convicted before, so the issue is reoffending, not the global idea of the offences themselves.
Of course, as we know, the vast majority of sexual offences occur between people who know each other. The horrible tragedies where it is an offence committed by a stranger are in fact rare. That's not to diminish that we shouldn't be very alive to doing everything we can to prevent that, but again, we have to maintain a perspective on what the levels of incidence are vis-à-vis what kind of solution we design to address that problem.