Yes, I was getting to that. The designated offences under the national sex offender registry right now include, as you say, a wide variety. So I was just addressing your comment about whether a sexual assault would put a sex offender on the national sex offender registry.
I know much less about the Ontario law, so I'm afraid I can only talk in generalities. I think that may be one way to strike the right balance in terms of not casting the net so arbitrarily wide as to encompass all offences and all variations of assaults. That is one possibility. But I think there are other ways to make the national sex offender registry more effective without making it mandatory. For example, some of the members of the council, who work right across the country, have told me that one improvement to the registry might be to list the factors a judge could take into consideration when putting an offender on the registry. Right now there is no enumerated list. A judge can take into account a wide variety of factors. That is discretionary, and it's up to the judge to make that determination. That may be a good thing, but one of the criticisms of that is that the law is applied inconsistently. In one case a judge might take into account some factors, and in another case the judge may not take into account those same factors.
One possibility, rather than having a mandatory list, might be to keep the list of designated offences but enumerate the factors a judge takes into consideration when making the determination on whether an offender goes on the registry.