I don't recall specifically if this came up, but Ontario has kept its registry because of its investigative usefulness and the absence of the investigative usefulness, in our opinion, of the national sex offender registry. This is the CACP's position.
There are a number of areas where Ontario could improve their registry, and that's acknowledged by the CACP. The CACP would have great pleasure in being able to have such confidence in the investigative value of the national sex offender registry that the provincial registry, being separate and apart, need not continue to be used. In the absence of what we feel is the enhanced safety and security of those residing in our province, we have chosen to keep it, but we would be very willing to consider abolishing it if there were legislation and a national registry that met the benchmarks of our registry.