It bothers me a bit that the municipal and provincial police departments are always blamed. I'm willing to believe they have a large share of responsibility. However, I find it hard to understand why there is no system that alerts the RCMP to ensure that you nevertheless take action when you don't receive this 216 form.
Let's consider a situation in which you first receive it and you enter the information in the system. However, if you don't receive it a second time after charges have been laid, you erase all that 18 months later. So that's a bit troubling.
In Quebec, for example, the information concerning 10% to 40% of individuals convicted is not entered in the system. All that's quite troubling.