Justice committee  I will also refer you to the youth court statistics, Juristat, which was provided to you. If you look on page 32, table 8, you can see the percentage of youth cases sentenced to custody since 2002-03. We have that information from the youth court survey going back to 1990.

Justice committee  I don't have that information in front of me. I would have to provide that percentage or proportion of the population to the committee afterwards.

Justice committee  I wouldn't be able to comment on that without the information in front of me. As we do show the information by rate per hundred thousand population, we could look at the population trends for the 12- to 17-year-olds over time, but we could also look at the number of incidents t

Justice committee  I didn't have them with me today, but I can provide them to the committee if necessary.

Justice committee  I will refer you to the crime Juristat that was provided to you with the materials that were sent out, the “Police-reported crime statistics in Canada, 2009”. In there, at the end, a number of detailed data tables will provide you with time series information for the last ten yea

Justice committee  Yes. That information was released by Statistics Canada in July of 2010 through the daily publication. We brought this as a table drop today, but it is publicly available on the Statistics Canada website.

Justice committee  I would have to check with our parliamentary relations officer if it was sent in advance. She's letting me know that the materials were sent last week.

Justice committee  It's just before the references at the end of the article.

Justice committee  These data are only 2009; however, if it is of interest to the committee, we can provide this going back in time.

Justice committee  If you look at the graph, on the left hand side the legend is showing it's the percentage of the guilty cases. If we look at that graph in terms of the percentage of the guilty cases, for violent cases, it's approximately 17% of all cases going before the courts, and if you look

Justice committee  Sorry, it would be going to custody. Excuse me.

Justice committee  In 1998, if you add those two together, you would have slightly over 55% of cases where they are guilty being sentenced to custody. If you look at that trend over time, we are now closer to 35%, 37%.

Justice committee  The rest of those would have gone to probations, fines, and other things, when you take the entirety of all cases found guilty.

Justice committee  I'll ask Ms. Kong to respond about the Quebec data. I don't have specific information about Quebec and the recidivism rate in front of me, unless others brought it with them.

Justice committee  Yes, they are.