Canada: Changed names, the law and sex offenders

[Jim Burton]

https://www.brandonsun.com/opinion/2025 ... -offenders

The NDP government of Manitoba cannot say why it passed — but did not enact — a 2024 law preventing citizens convicted of child sexual offences from legally changing their names. All we know is that government is now scrambling to put this law into effect after its shortcoming was fully revealed to the public.

This week, the Winnipeg Free Press reported how a mother had learned that a man she had befriended and allowed to spend time with her preteen son was actually a convicted child sex offender who had legally changed his name.