Justice committee  I'll start with your last one and ask Mr. Grimes to interject as needed. What I said on that slide was that it “coincides” with the introduction of mandatory minimums; I did not say it was a result of the introduction of mandatory minimums.

Justice committee  I cannot comment on the relationship between the statistics and the legislation.

Justice committee  I can only comment on the data.

Justice committee  In terms of slide 13, again, Mr. Grimes can comment on exactly what legislation was introduced in 2006-2007, but we cannot comment on whether what you see in terms of the increases is a result of the legislation.

Justice committee  Certainly. Unreported crime is measured by Statistics Canada through the general social survey on victimization. That is a survey of Canadians aged 15 or older. Eight specific offence categories are asked about. Based on the results released earlier this year, we know that one-q

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  Oh, forgive me. More incidents were reported of females aged 12 to 17 being the victims than for those in other age groups, whereas the number of incidents for boys remained relatively stable regardless of age.

Justice committee  Slide 5 provides an overview of the ages of victims of police-reported other sexual offences committed against children. While females are more likely than males to be victims, the distribution of the victim's age is different from what we saw on slide 4 for sexual assaults. Whil

Justice committee  Thank you very much, and thank you for the opportunity to present to the committee on the act to protect children from sexual predators. Statistics Canada does not take a position on the bill. The presentation we have prepared contains our most recent data on the sexual offenc

Justice committee  Yes, you are reading that correctly.

Justice committee  Yes, you are.

Justice committee  Yes, it does.

Justice committee  We look at land-based motor vehicle theft, which includes cars, trucks, vans, sport utility vehicles, motorcycles, buses, snowmobiles, things like that.

Justice committee  We can separate them out and supply that to the committee, if you would like.

Justice committee  In terms of youth who are accused, in 2009 it was approximately three of ten persons would be of the age 12 to 17. So they would be tried under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.