We don't have any national statistics with respect to bail at this time. Individual provinces and territories, as I'm sure you know, are responsible for collecting criminal justice system data, including bail data. Sometimes they publish this data on their websites.
Statistics Canada provides provinces and territories with the opportunity to report their bail data so that a national dataset can be available, but not all jurisdictions are currently contributing to that.
Through its integrated criminal court survey, Statistics Canada is able to combine various sources of information to create what they call “composite indicators”. Basically, this is combined information on the occurrence and outcomes of bail hearings for seven jurisdictions that report, but sometimes they report differently, so it can be challenging to analyze that data.
Justice officials are currently working with Statistics Canada on a special data request to review and analyze the available data.