U.S. wants Canada to share travel information on convicted child sex offenders
The U.S. government says it’s frustrated that Ottawa refuses to routinely notify Washington when Canadians convicted of sexual offences against children travel to the United States, noting that it alerts Canada when the same class of American offenders are heading here.
The Americans say Canada cites federal privacy law as the reason.
RCMP Staff-Sergeant Alain Gagnon, manager of the National Sex Offender Registry, said the database is governed by the Sexual Offender Registry Act. The law forbids the RCMP to share information on convicted sex offenders with another country unless they have evidence an offense is going to be committed.
All federal legislation in Canada must conform to the Privacy Act, which says that information about Canadians cannot be routinely shared.
“We can disclose information to a police service outside Canada when it is necessary to assist them in prevention or investigation of a crime of a sexual nature,” Staff-Sgt. Gagnon said in an interview. “That is really the only thing we can use as authorization to notify another country of a sex offender traveling.”
LoL ha suck it United States, Canada is saying to our country!
While the privacy laws may be more favorable up north, the same ignorant attitudes still prevail. Just check out the comments section of the article. Same troll fodder. Sad to see that the majority of people do not use their brains, but it does explain a lot.
Please post your own comments to counteract the trolls. We should ALL be posting comments.
RESPECT! For our Canadian neighbors.
Whom ever is responsible for that decision should be commended along with evidence upholding why there viewpoints are correct. Canada doesn’t want to go down that path that only causes trouble for everyone, including them.
In 4 words As it should be
Damn Canada’s government is more for freedom than our country. Canada is a sovereign nation and Washington should butt out of a country’s business. I wish that kind of thinking would of come down instead of the arctic blasts.
“The US government is frustrated”?? So let the US government suck on frozen lug nuts! 😠
Maybe the US government is just frustrated that other countries protect their citizens better and give them more respect and privacy than America does! 😡