Public Safety committee  But they don't know I'm in the convicted offenders index.

Public Safety committee  There are a number of parts to that question. I don't think the data bank alone does all of the suggestions you've made. One of the reasons I mentioned the U.K. was that they do have a longer history, and obviously a larger database. That's why the experience and statistics com

Public Safety committee  Yes, I'd like to see a scenario of how that would happen.

Public Safety committee  Again I ask, how can the data bank be used for that right now? You get a crime scene index sample, or you get a crime scene sample, you upload it to Ottawa, and you don't know who's in the convicted offenders index unless it comes back as a match. You don't know I'm in there unle

Public Safety committee  No, that's not how it would work. Let's say that I am in the convicted offenders index, that I have been uploaded. There's also a crime scene sample that the police find. And they upload it to Ottawa in the crime scene index. Say it doesn't come back as a match. How do they know

Public Safety committee  There is no doubt that DNA plays a big role now, even in terms of files that come across your desk. Five or ten years ago, when it was very expensive to test, you wouldn't get many DNA cases except in murders and very serious sexual offences. I think now our members understand. W

Public Safety committee  Firstly, there's no doubt that DNA has gone tremendous ways in getting exonerations. In the U.S., they're now past 200 wrongful convictions exonerated by DNA, apart from other cases they've had that didn't deal with DNA. Just with DNA, they've had over 200 exonerated. In Canada

Public Safety committee  Good morning. I'm here this morning on behalf of the Criminal Lawyers Association. I'll give you a bit of a background. Our organization is comprised of about 1,000 defence lawyers across Canada. One of our mandates is to provide some missions to committees such as this, and als