Thank you.
I very much appreciate the physical manifestation here today of the diverse perspectives on this. We have the valid voice of due process, privacy, and the particular horrors experienced by those who have suffered the victimization of this. I think these are all very important voices added to this discussion, along with hearing the police perspective on Tuesday.
I want to express my deepest sympathies to the Stephensons at the outset.
I'd like to start by asking about something the police representative said on Tuesday. If I understood them correctly, they said that there are certain specific and unique attributes to offences of a sexual nature. One of them is the need for speed. They claimed that when a child is abducted, or if there's any kind of sexual abduction, the chances of the victim being murdered are very high within the first 24 hours. There seems to be a particular urgency to these kinds of offences. Second, they asserted that very often there are multiple offences, whether discovered or not. They seem to suggest that if you caught an offender, even a first-time offender, the chances of that person having done it before on many occasions without being caught were quite high.
I'm wondering if you have any comment on that . And if you accept those comments, do you think that those particular attributes justify a more robust approach by Parliament on this to ensure that the registry be tougher because of those reasons?