All I can suggest on that is that it was a matter of extended dialogue with provinces and internally. At the end of the day, the option of going fully automatic, similar to Ontario's, as opposed to not going to automatic was considered. There were certainly a number of different variations of going automatic.
One thing I would point out is that if a sexual assault hybrid...and there are a number of hybrid offences in the automatic list. If you remove those summary conviction offences, you would see that the majority of sexual offenders would not be automatically registered. The majority of offences in Canada are in fact prosecuted summarily.
That, I think, probably was a major consideration in terms of how this was going to be structured. If the direction and the will of the government—and ultimately of Parliament—is to have an automatic system of registration for sex offenders, if the majority of sex offenders are in fact subject to some type of discretion, then I don't know that you would be calling this an automatic sex offender registry on par with Ontario's.
Again, I think that's a policy choice. It is a decision of the government of the day.