What I think all of us on this committee are grappling with is this. If we pass a law that prohibits people who have committed any one of those offences in that long list of sexual offences against children from getting a pardon, is that a good public policy because it makes society know forever that those people committed that offence? Or is that bad public policy?
I noticed a sentence of yours, Mr. Marshall. You said, “...no sensible community would give pardons to all sex offenders”. I think we all agree with that. So my question is whether a sensible community would deny pardons to every sex offender. That's the corollary question that came to my mind.