Thank you. I have a few statistics from a variety of sources.
The Canadian Centre for Child Protection, which I believe appeared as a witness here, received about 23,000 in 2024. These are all reports they receive from the public that they refer to Canadian law enforcement. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in the United States refers approximately 100,000 child sexual exploitation cases to Canadian authorities every year. Juristat reported that police incidents were at approximately 17,000 reports last year. Importantly, 94% of these cases are not cleared by police because of either insufficient evidence or the impossibility of identifying criminals.
I would also like to add—it doesn't have to do with child sexual exploitation—that in terms of Internet fraud cases, only about 5% of Internet fraud cases are reported at any given time. In the first three months of this year, there were 8,000 reports that were processed by police, totalling $188 million. In 2025, it was almost $800 million, and again, that's only 5% of Internet fraud cases.
