Justice committee  That's correct.

Justice committee  We're trying to establish those figures in consultation with the provincial partners, but we anticipate that it would be in the order of dozens.

Justice committee  It's not a very high number of those that are disclosed as a result of a public disclosure notification.

Justice committee  I think to simplify things, essentially what the RCMP will be mandated to do here by Parliament is create the national infrastructure to allow for consistent publication of previously published high-risk offenders. With respect to the specific amendment, the difficulty is that the RCMP would not have any control over, if we published based on the criteria here, any individual using the Internet to try to identify victims.

Justice committee  The imposition is not on the commissioner to say that you will not publish the name of the victim. It says that under no circumstance must the information in the database be used to identify a victim. So anybody in the public can take the information here, go on the Internet, and try to do media searches and so forth.

Justice committee  If I could correct you there, the RCMP is not doing it as a national federal entity. We're doing it as the police of jurisdiction in those areas, based on where we might be the police of jurisdiction.

Justice committee  I would add only that I think that's a proper interpretation of how the RCMP would exercise its obligations, which is to only.... The act is very clear: it must contain only information that has previously been disclosed. The consequence of the amendment might actually create operational challenges for the RCMP to operationalize the bill.

Justice committee  I would just add as a point of clarification that the national sex offender registry database already exists, and there are 36,000 names in that database. There's a single national database for people who have been convicted of a designated offence and who are required to register.

Justice committee  That is a database separate from the high-risk child sex offender database, which will be created once this bill has been enacted.

Justice committee  If the travel plans change, then within seven days they have to make a notification that the plans have changed.

Justice committee  Correct.

Justice committee  For historical, a general production order is reasonable grounds to believe, so it's a higher threshold.

Justice committee  We would have to either secure a search warrant for the physical device and then do an analysis, or we'd have to go to the service provider with a general production order. This is for historical data.

Justice committee  Our understanding of transmission data—I mean, it’s very clearly spelled out in the proposed legislation already. It clearly indicates that the content of transmission, which “does not reveal the substance, meaning, or purpose of the communication”, is to be disclosed to police and you can't get a product order for that or use that provision to get that information.

Justice committee  Correct. All of the provisions within the proposed legislation include prior judicial authorization. Transmission data and our understanding of how it would be applied is a modern equivalent to phone-call information in terms of the origin and the type. It includes a little bit more insofar as the size and the type, but pretty much everything else is…but the direction, the date, time, the origin, destination—those are the things we would normally get with an order for telephone information.