Mr. Speaker, I listened with some amazement to the hon. member on the other side. He talked about the fact that after the House adopted an Alliance motion which called on the government to set into place a sex offender registry, the government was not able to comply with the suggested date of implementation.
Normally the Alliance is the party that talks about grassroots, consultation and in particular consultation with other levels of government. It has scolded the federal government when we have made a decision, taken a position or adopted a policy without, in his party's view, properly consulting with the other levels of government.
In this case the federal government consulted with the other levels of government, the provincial and territorial governments. There was a working group. It was the consensus of all the levels of government that the sex offender registry would not be retroactive. It was agreed that it needed to be charter proof, not to put into play and into jeopardy the entire regime.
I would like to know what the member has to say in particular about making a registry charter proof. It is clear under our charter there is to be no double jeopardy. No individual who has already been convicted and sentenced to a particular sentence is to have that sentence added on to. I would like to hear from the member about that. If he is in favour of changing that, it changes many other things, labour relations and many other domains. I would really like to hear what the member has to say about that.