Public Safety committee  Perhaps Greg would have other information to add. I do know that there has been comment that DNA profiles should be treated just like fingerprints. Then when you make analogies to situations in which parents.... And there are programs with different police forces and schools to

Public Safety committee  I will ask Dr. Fourney to elaborate. We have, as I said earlier, the advantage of all the experience and science and technology, including interactive softwares, in building the national DNA data bank in a DNA context, the handling of profiles and how you would manage them in an

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  I think it would be fair to say that everyone wants it, but it's a matter of how it happens.

Public Safety committee  There was no money per se given to the working group to conduct its work. In the FPT context, we all collectively sponsored that, and our department was leading on behalf of the FPT community, again at the direction of those ministers, so that work just proceeds on its own. There

Public Safety committee  Sometimes you may not know about that. Someone else may report them missing, but it's hard to determine that circumstance or that intent, if I understood your question properly.

Public Safety committee  I think as Greg and I have indicated, from our particular perspectives, we are optimistic of it. It is the decision of deputy ministers and ministers above us. We can't guarantee how that would go, but we feel that our work is complete. The working group is in a position to make

Public Safety committee  I would say that is probably the model that is on the table now. That's what we meant when we talked about everybody wanting a flexible model whereby they could choose to control that. That's envisioned as the best way of making more provinces able to participate, of making it ac

Public Safety committee  I think they would all see themselves as part of it. It's a matter of who establishes the system and how it interacts between things that originate in the provinces and territories and what's done in a national data bank.

Public Safety committee  Part of that process--again, the decision is how we would go after those 6,000 historical cases--would probably have to be a separate project on its own. That's been part of the cost estimates we've been doing. Whether that starts during the 12 to 18 months or when legislation is

Public Safety committee  In the international context, I might ask Dr. Fourney if he has.... I know the United Kingdom, the United States....

Public Safety committee  I guess there are many scenarios, but in terms of which index you set up, you can, of course, take from found human remains with the coroner. When you have a missing persons report with police and whatever protocols you attach to that, you may take samples, with consent, from th

Public Safety committee  I could add a little bit to that, Mr. Comartin, if it's helpful. Throughout, no one is.... It's being envisioned as a publicly funded capacity. There would be no question, I don't think, of individuals and families being asked to pay for any part of the service. Nothing like tha

Public Safety committee  I'll give an initial comment, and then perhaps Dr. Fourney can add something. We're somewhat informed by the experience of setting up the DNA data bank in 1998 to 2000, when the original legislation came in, with regard to how long it took to stand up a national system, the lab

Public Safety committee  I don't know. I'll ask Dr. Fourney, who worked on these, to get the information about the United States, to be more precise, if he could. Thank you.