I'll be brief.
We're not convinced that this would necessarily be more effective, unless we have some reason to believe that there's a problem now that the information is being misused. From our perspective, the privacy intrusion is not about the misuse of the information in the registry, but rather about the collection of the information, the monitoring of the individuals. That's why we're saying that there needs to be a balance, and one way to look at the balance is to assess its effectiveness.
Concerning ways to make it more effective, resources is one possibility. I suspect that one of the problems with the scheme is that ultimately it is a national scheme and not a federal scheme, that much of the day-to-day work is not done by the RCMP but by local police forces. How you get them to cooperate or how you get them to take a more active role is likely to be a challenge.
Are there systems ways to make it more effective? One of the problems, I understand, is that when the year is up and the individual has perhaps not re-registered, there isn't a simple systems way of identifying the fact that the person has failed to re-register. Are there ways to address some of the problems that would not increase the intrusiveness?