I just checked with our legislative expert. I don't know how this happened, but this was submitted. It doesn't really matter. I have language here that I think might accomplish this now. I'm going to read it again. It would add the following: “...a description of how they committed each crime of a sexual nature, of which they were convicted.”
When I read that information before, my Bloc colleagues told me that wasn't broad enough in terms of what they meant to capture by their concept. If I'm paraphrasing correctly, they want something that would capture the internal motivations of the perpetrator. But when I heard the reading out of the meaning of “modus operandi” in Black's Law Dictionary, modus operandi does not include a concept of internal mind. It's the pattern of how something was committed. With that in mind, if my Bloc colleagues are intent on putting in language that they would like to see that is broader than that, then that's up to them. But what I would suggest is that the language I've drafted—and I'm prepared to circulate that here—is something that's written in English, and it does add what I think most of us want added, subject to debate on the merits, which would be helpful for police.
If the registry knows that someone likes to commit a particular crime against children by using particular toys to lure the children.... Let's say they have a pattern of hanging around schools with a little puppy in their hand. That would be helpful information, probably, in a registry. I actually think this is better than trying to get into what their particular mindset might be, because it's objective. Where there are patterns of means of committing an offence that may be helpful for police to know when they're searching a registry.
I would once again just reiterate that I do have language drafted that I would put forward for the committee to look at if they think that captures what they want.