Public Safety committee  Yes. The reported case law has indicated that there have been some situations in which the offender has made that argument and has been successful. I'd invite Mr. Hoover to comment.

Public Safety committee  We have heard from some officials from the working group that crown attorneys, on some occasions, simply through pressure of time or workload, what have you, forget to ask for the order, so it's partly just human frailty, and learning, of course. A model that uses automatic inc

Public Safety committee  As the other witnesses have said, I think it depends on what your measures of success are. Obviously, the most important one is the overall objective of being a useful tool for investigating crimes. I defer to my police colleagues on that matter at this point. Other measures we

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair, I'm the co-chair of the working group, along with my attorney general colleague from Saskatchewan. We have been looking at a number of these recommendations. In terms of sharing them, I do have to be cognizant of some expectations of confidentiality from the provinces,

Public Safety committee  Again, that's a very good question. There have not been any evaluations to date of the national registry, simply because it is too soon. Now that we're in the fifth year of operation, I think researchers would say this is a point at which they can start looking at the impact of t

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. It's a pleasure to be here again. I've had the pleasure of appearing before committee many times. It is a privilege to do so. I am the director general of the Corrections and Criminal Justice Directorate in the Department of Public Safety, formerl

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I'll speak very briefly to give a bit of context to the legislation. Mr. Yumansky will speak briefly about the process of registration and reporting. Then, I understand, Inspector Nezan will speak on behalf of the RCMP, after which Chief Superint