Justice committee  Certainly, we'd be able to provide you with that information. I would refer you to page 33 of the Juristat article on police-reported crime statistics in Canada. Table 7b looks at overall police-reported crime from 1999 onwards. We would happily provide you with the information f

Justice committee  That information refers to adult criminal courts. I don't have information in front of me for youth courts, which would inform the discussion of this bill. It is also the most serious sentence for “other sexual offences”, not for “all sexual offences”. “Other sexual offences” wou

Justice committee  Exactly. For adult criminal courts, there has been an increase in the custodial sentence as the most serious sentence for “other sexual offences”. I would not be able to comment on the cost of that custodial sentence.

Justice committee  I do not know.

Justice committee  Since the introduction of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, there has been a 23% decline in cases completed in youth court in Canada.

Justice committee  The violent crime is the red line. It has remained relatively stable in Canada since 1999.

Justice committee  That is all youth crime that came to the attention of the courts. So it is youth crime where an individual was accused and moved into the court system, and in 2008-09—that one fiscal year—nearly half of cases with custody and supervision had terms of one month or less.

Justice committee  Could you let us know the table number you're referring to?

Justice committee  At the top of the page, which is it?

Justice committee  I would refer you to slide 2 of the presentation, which looks at youth from 12 to 17 years old accused of police-reported crime by the type of clearance status. You will notice that it shows the rate per 100,000 youth in Canada from 1999 through to 2009. The reason we include a r

Justice committee  I will refer you to slide 3 for that, which breaks down the statistics for 2009. “Youth cleared” is looking at verbal warnings, written cautions, referral to community programs, referral to extrajudicial sanctions programs, and other means. “Other means” would include such things

Justice committee  What you are seeing here is the youth accused of a police-reported crime. If you would like to look at the youth police-reported crime rate, I would refer you to slide 4, which looks at the total of the non-violent crime and the violent crime, at the rate per 100,000 youths in Ca

Justice committee  What we can say is the youth crime rate over time has been dropping as a result of the changes in the non-violent crime, as seven out of ten crimes of which youth are accused in Canada are non-violent offences.

Justice committee  That report is our annual Juristat on police-reported crime in Canada. There is a section that talks about police-reported crime in general, police-reported crime for adults, and police-reported crimed for youth. So I would refer you...throughout the article there are references

Justice committee  We work in collaboration with all of the jurisdictions across Canada in order to provide data to us. We have national data requirements, and we aim for all jurisdictions contributing data to a survey to meet those national data standards. In some jurisdictions it is simply not p