Justice committee  That's correct.

Justice committee  It would be any person against whom the police have laid a charge or have recommended that a charge be laid. In this case the person would be 12 to 17 years of age.

Justice committee  The police would have determined that the incident was either associated with organized crime and/or street gang activity.

Justice committee  We can definitely get those statistics for other serious types of crimes--however, not gang-related.

Justice committee  I think I mentioned earlier that we have two surveys that are collecting information on crime in Canada. One is the uniform crime reporting survey and one is the homicide survey. We have information on the homicide survey that is related to gang activity or organized crime dating back to 1991.

Justice committee  We introduced it in our 2007 data. In 2006, yes, we had a report that pertained to 2006 data; however, it was officially launched as part of our standard report for our 2007 data.

Justice committee  The basic idea is that a more serious offence would be allotted a higher weight.

Justice committee  There are particular offences that can be better compared than others; they are relatively few. We don't generally do a lot of overall types of comparisons because the methodologies do differ.

Justice committee  Are you asking if it is universal across different countries?

Justice committee  It depends on the type of offence. We do collect information on victims within incidents that are categorized as offences against the person. So, for example, we have information on assaults that occur. If there are five people who are assaulted within a particular incident, we would count one incident and five victims.

Justice committee  We have different versions of the uniform crime reporting survey. In our earliest version--and I think we were talking about this earlier--that is correct. We used to count incidents according to the most serious violation that occurred within the incident. However, we have a newer version of the uniform crime reporting survey that can capture up to four violations for each incident that occurs.

Justice committee  I believe what you're referring to is a survey, the uniform crime reporting survey, which collects information on all crime committed that is reported to police in Canada.

Justice committee  If you are referring to the crime rate, the crime rate excludes any traffic offences as well as any federal statute offences. But we certainly have information on those particular offences that you did mention, for example, impaired driving.

Justice committee  That is correct. Anything that would fall under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act is excluded from the calculation of the traditional crime rate. However, again, we can certainly provide statistics on those particular offences.

Justice committee  If the offence falls under the Criminal Code--there are fraud-related offences within the Criminal Code--then they would be included in the calculation of the traditional crime rate. However, if they fall under another federal statute, then yes, they would be excluded. But again, we have information on some of those offences.