Public Safety committee  Yes, sir, there's no question about that. The complexity of investigations today brings about an enormous cost, particularly on those investigations where a suspect is not readily available. When you have a murder and there are no suspects, you are into a very long and difficult

Public Safety committee  If I may, Mr. Chairman, earlier I responded to Mr. Rathgeber's question with an incorrect answer. Perhaps I could correct that. With respect to CPIC, I said that to the best of my belief it wasn't flagged. My belief was incorrect. It is flagged on CPIC for the particular purpose

Public Safety committee  Not to the best of my understanding.

Public Safety committee  Well, as the science, of course, improves, all offences leave traceable data. Nobody can enter an environment without leaving traceable data. To go back to one of the earlier questions, when the act first came out, the science was very much about getting those obvious bodily flui

Public Safety committee  Well, dangerous driving is an offence, and of course one of the critical components is who was actually behind the wheel. DNA will provide evidence of who was actually driving the car, or it could provide evidence to that.

Public Safety committee  Well, having people in the data bank, of course, allows later on, as I say, the searching of the data bank.

Public Safety committee  I would also comment, please.

Public Safety committee  Yes. What I'm saying is--

Public Safety committee  I'm saying that the more samples in the bank, the earlier you can exonerate as that crime scene sample is run through the bank.

Public Safety committee  I would leave the issue on reliability of testing to scientists, but with respect to the exoneration, clearly exonerating people early in investigation is good for them, it's good for the system. There are examples coming up in the U.K. where people have been convicted on the bas

Public Safety committee  That's correct, sir.

Public Safety committee  Agreed. It's another mechanism.

Public Safety committee  They may make application to have that done.

Public Safety committee  That would bring about congruity with the act, yes, sir.

Public Safety committee  Yes, sir, absolutely. One of the shortcomings we have with respect to the international drug trade, for example, is that the information on Canadians who are arrested in the U.S. for being involved in the drug trade and have their DNA taken cannot be entered in the Canadian data