(Quebec) Conservative leader Éric Duhaime is taking up a promise abandoned by the Coalition avenir Québec. He is committed to setting up a public register of sex offenders if he forms a government in the first year of his mandate, without however including buyers of sexual services as recommended by the commission on the sexual exploitation of minors.
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The leader of the Conservative Party of Quebec made the announcement Monday in front of the Parliament Building, along with lawyer Marc Bellemare and Sophie Dupont, a woman who has been an activist for nearly 20 years. She created her own registry on Facebook based on information in the media about sex offenders released after serving their sentences.
During the last election campaign, the chief caquist François Legault and the candidate in Louis-Hébert, Geneviève Guilbault, had promised to create a public register of sex offenders. In the end, it never saw the light of day once the CAQ had formed the government.
The Sûreté du Québec already administers a registry of sex offenders in Quebec, but its data is not public and is said to be incomplete. A request sent to the federal government to request more data had been refused, it is argued in the office of Minister Guilbault.
More details to come.