Public Safety committee  That's correct.

Public Safety committee  If I may add to that, Madam Lavallée, in Ontario, the annual operating budget for the Ontario sex offender registry is approximately $4 million. That allows us to provide support and training to law enforcement agencies across Ontario. The other piece, as well, is the emerging te

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  Our average for Ontario law enforcement agencies accessing the Ontario registry is approximately 475 times per day.

Public Safety committee  There is one difference that I'm aware of. The offence of voyeurism has been added in Ontario.

Public Safety committee  To the best of my knowledge, that is so. I would defer to Ms. Campbell.

Public Safety committee  Our experience has been that Ontario courts order offenders registered on the national registry in 50% to 60% of the cases.

Public Safety committee  One of the most common examples we have is that of a registered sex offender relocating elsewhere in Canada outside of Ontario. Obviously, some of these people have a transient nature as well. If they relocate to another province or territory in Canada, they need to make notifica

Public Safety committee  Having been a major case manager involved in homicide investigations, I would say that one of the features of having a registry, obviously, especially in Ontario's case, is that in searching for a missing child by querying the registry and utilizing its geo-mapping features, you

Public Safety committee  The changes we suggest in light of our experience in Ontario would be automatic registration for any resident convicted of a sexual offence, notice of absence, information on offenders' vehicles and the introduction of a card. The Ontario sex offender registry contains maps showi

Public Safety committee  Improvements were made to the provincial act in 2008 to add information on vehicles. This is a very important investigative tool. As you know, when an offender approaches a child in the street, there is often a description of the vehicle. We are able to find detailed information

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  It's hard to cite any cases in which we've achieved the prevention objective. However, in 96% or 97% of cases where we have the information, we think we are able to prevent crimes. We have a few examples in which we are able to find information in the data base to improve or assi

Public Safety committee  If I may, on behalf of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, I'll give some highlights of the differences between the provincial legislation in Ontario and the federal legislation. The purpose is to have an investigative tool to aid police in preventing and solving crime

Public Safety committee  I'm a superintendent with the Ontario Provincial Police and the director of behavioural sciences and analysis services, which also incorporates the Ontario sex offender registry.