Ottawa to crack down on Canadian sex tourists

James McTurk, a retired postal worker, became the first person in
Toronto to be convicted under Canada’s child sex tourism legislation.

The federal government is promising unprecedented reforms to protect foreign children from Canadian child sex offenders including creating a “publicly accessible” registry of high-risk predators.

Currently, only law enforcement officials can access information in the country’s sex offender registry.

Asked for clarity on how much detail the public would be able to access on those contained in the national database, a Public Safety spokesman said details on the legislation would be available when it is tabled this fall.

“Public means public,” the spokesman for Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney added.  (more...)

Ottawa to crack down on Canadian sex tourists