Public Safety committee  Yes, I am. At present I understand that the resources are not high. But if there are to be further amendments, then it's an open question as to whether that would increase the costs. And if resources are going into the registry—and that might be a valid value-added thing to do—

Public Safety committee  I've seen numbers ranging from $400,000 to $600,000.

Public Safety committee  If I could just comment on that, this is probably a little provocative, but the gun registry of course is an example—I realize this is regulation of guns, and not people—of something that can take on a life of its own when resources are put into a registry like that. I think yo

Public Safety committee  I will come back to a comment I made in my opening statement, which is that in a democratic society, we make the decision for the prosecution of offences and the investigation of offences to be undertaken by the criminal justice system. We don't undertake that obligation or respo

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  It may solve the office kiss problem. It may solve the idea of sweeping up arbitrarily all persons into the registry who may not be appropriately there. That may solve that problem, and that's something to consider, but again, the issue with making it mandatory is that it leaves

Public Safety committee  Sorry...?

Public Safety committee  Right, with respect to the Ontario registry. So you're saying that a summary conviction—

Public Safety committee  Yes, they do.

Public Safety committee  I'm sorry...?

Public Safety committee  No, the discretion is with respect to the registration. That is what I'm talking about.

Public Safety committee  Thank you. My answer to that question is that I don't know what crimes or offences the registry would be able to solve or prevent. From what little I do know about the registry, albeit it is little, I have yet to see any empirical evidence that it works for any offence. That's

Public Safety committee  The offence of sexual assault encompasses a wide variety of behaviour and what's called the actus reus of the offence, which is the actual act and not the intent involved. It encompasses a wide variety of behaviour, which can be determined on the basis of circumstances: things sa

Public Safety committee  Are you reading from the Ontario legislation?

Public Safety committee  Yes, I was getting to that. The designated offences under the national sex offender registry right now include, as you say, a wide variety. So I was just addressing your comment about whether a sexual assault would put a sex offender on the national sex offender registry. I know