Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to thank Mrs. Groenewegen for bringing this forward. I am in full support of it. That is why I asked her if I could second this motion. To me, this motion really speaks to the principle of the people we take care of. That would be our youth, our children, the people at risk. They could be our seniors. They could be anyone.
Mr. Speaker, I believe we are duty bound as Members here to find ways and take every step that we consider reasonably possible to protect those from the predators that prey upon those people at risk I talked about earlier. Mrs. Groenewegen talked about the small amount of inconvenience. I don't think it is an inconvenience to ask people who put themselves in positions of trust and we don't know what happens. This is just one more element to ensure that we can trust people and nothing, or at least we can try to make sure nothing, happens.
Mr. Speaker, recently, in the last couple of years, the federal government put their sexual offender registry into force. Now, if you had been charged with a sexual offence after that period once it had come into force, you are on that registry. But this not only looks at those people; it looks at everybody else who was charged with some type of sexual offence beforehand and any other type of offence that may be relevant to be made as notice to that employer or volunteer agency. So this is almost like this motion sets forward a method or process to help find gaps in the system because predators are a cunning bunch. They will find ways to look for opportunities. That makes our job even tougher here at this Legislative Assembly to ensure that we close those doors and we stop that access. If this is just a small step in the right direction, I think it is certainly the most reasonable step and it is certainly not an onerous process to ask someone to fill out a criminal records check. Therefore, everyone, the parents dropping their kids off, maybe their parents who are seniors off in facilities, or whatever the case may be, it gives them the extra little bit of comfort to know that that facility is being run properly and taking care of their loved ones.
So, Mr. Speaker, I will be supporting this motion. I want to thank the Member for bringing it forward. I also want to thank her guest here in our gallery today for helping initiate some of this process. Thank you.
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