moved for leave to introduce Bill C-425, an act to amend the Criminal Code (public disclosure of the names of persons who have served a sentence of imprisonment for an offence of a sexual nature).
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to table the bill this morning. This enactment amends the Criminal Code to provide a mechanism for public disclosure of the names of certain criminals when they have served their sentence of imprisonment.
Under this enactment a person who believes on reasonable grounds that another person who has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment for an offence of a sexual nature will commit the same offence or another offence of a sexual nature may, before the date fixed for the expiration of that person's sentence with the consent of the attorney general, lay an information before a provincial court judge.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)