October 2024. Shortly after I posted that last update I was informed by a journalist that I need to keep looking at the online photos of unidentified and missing persons. In 2018, thanks to the Missing Persons Act, police can now collect familial DNA. The plan is to eventually have a national database of missing persons DNA, familial DNA, plus DNA taken from unidentified remains (for instance if a deceased person is found in the woods or in a car accident without ID they are considered unidentified.) Right now DNA is stockpiling in Ottawa without anyone entering it into this new database. Families are asking police to collect DNA and are being turned down. There is no protocol. When unidentified remains are found in Canada, there’s also no DNA protocol. It’s up to the attending officer if they want to collect DNA. Also problematic is that after 5 years of collecting DNA samples, police can legally dispose of the samples before they are even entered into the database. So there is no database. There’s just a concept of a database. Such a national database is essential for the friends and family of the missing. 
Finally, when OPP told us that they searched the US database, they didn’t search a missing persons DNA database, they searched CODIS, the DNA database for criminals. Of course, Jon didn’t match their database. In the USA, a national database for missing and unidentified remains also needs to happen. Right now, OPP can only request that Jon’s DNA gets run against each missing persons database in each state. State by state by state. It’s an expense that OPP is not willing to pay. We may never know if Jon’s DNA is a match somewhere in an USA databank.  
Thank you for signing my petition. Together we can change the way police handle missing persons in Canada.