Mr. Speaker, I appreciated the comments that my colleague made with regard to the registry. If this was some sort of hypothetical, alleged infringement of the law that these individuals had perpetrated, that would be one thing. However we have people who have been convicted of a sexual offence. We know what kind of people they are.
I remember so clearly that one of my colleagues in the Rotary Club came to me one day. He told me that he and his wife knew there was a sex offender in their community who had been convicted. They wanted to know why they could not know where that person was. It is absolutely ridiculous that we should have some kind of a provision that makes it impossible for a young mother and her husband, the father, to protect their children.
Is that not what this is all about?