Mr. Speaker, the PC Party, as my colleague for Pictou—Antigonish—Guysborough has so eloquently said, believes that recording of DNA is good but it does not go far enough as it is in its present state. Basically it curtails the ability of police to do their job effectively. It can lead to the flight of criminals who have not gone to trial.
Unlike the registration of long guns imposed by the ill-conceived Bill C-68, the registry of criminals through DNA databanking is something we applaud.
I would like to ask my colleague for his comments about the bill not permitting retroactive testing of DNA for convicted criminals such as Clifford Olson or Paul Bernardo.