Mr. Speaker, that's a hypothetical question that I'm having trouble answering. I'm not sure if it would have helped. It's clearly a regrettable situation that happened, but I'm not sure whether or not a sex offender registry in the Northwest Territories would have helped to identify this person. In this situation, the question as to whether or not to identify this person would have been made, I think, by the parole system as to whether or not he was qualified to be released. The situation was that under the terms and conditions of his release order, there was no specific order about how he should be supervised. The parole staff were, in fact, going above and beyond what had been ordered to supervise the person, but there wasn't really anything that had been set out by the parole board or the courts in terms of what should have been done to supervise him. So I'm not sure how that necessarily would have worked. I can certainly take a look at what the options are for setting up such a registry. I'm not certain how the NWT would be able to operate such a service, but I would be prepared to look into it. Thank you.
Charles Dent on Question 3-15(3): Registry Of Sex Offenders
In the Legislative Assembly on March 16th, 2004. See this statement in context.
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Question 3-15(3): Registry Of Sex Offenders
Item 6: Oral Questions
March 15th, 2004
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