Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Justice.
As today is National Missing Children's Day it would have been appropriate for the government to announce its plan to introduce a national registry of all convicted child sex offenders.
On April 26 the minister assured this House that an options paper on a national child abuse registry would be available in the month of May. Yet yesterday the Solicitor General announced that plans for such a registry may have to wait until after the summer recess.
Can the minister advise this House when such an options paper will be made available? More important, when can Canadians expect a national child abuse registry?