[Grimmlok]

Well im sure we'll lock him up. That'll be good.

An update, Canada is going "Oh no you don't."

Canada's public safety minister asked yesterday for a full report about a U.S. court decision to exile a convicted sex offender and American citizen to Canada to serve three years' probation.

"And we asked for it in short order," Melisa Leclerc, spokeswoman for Stockwell Day, said. "Canada won't be a safe haven for sexual predators and criminals who committed crimes in other countries."

The request for information to the Canada Border Services Agency comes amid bafflement on both sides of the border over the recent decision ordering Malcolm Watson to return to the temporary home he shares in St. Catharines with his Canadian wife and three children.

Watson — who was fired in April from his job as a teacher at Buffalo Seminary, an all-girls' school that has 174 students between Grades 9 and 12 — was found with a 15-year-old girl in a parked car at the Galleria Mall by a security guard, court heard.

After pleading guilty to endangering the welfare of a child and sexual abuse in the third degree, Watson, 35, was told by Judge Thomas S. Kolbert, who sits in Cheektowaga, N.Y., that he could serve a year in an American jail or spend three years on probation in Canada.

As part of his guilty plea, he will be registered as a Level 1 sex offender under the federal registry in the United States.

But the controversial sentence may be rendered null if the Canadian government bars Watson entry to this country.

While Day is waiting for details of the case to decide how to proceed, Leclerc said deportation for someone in Watson's situation is not out of the question.

"If someone poses a risk to the safety of Canadians, then we can deport them for sure," she said, noting a detailed assessment will have to be carried out to determine what kind of threat an individual such as Watson would present.

Niagara Region police Staff Sgt. Chris Scotland said while police have taken measures in the past to inform the community of potentially dangerous individuals, he isn't sure what the force's course of action would be in this situation.

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Con...2154&t=TS_Home