Bill C-35 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Yes, what goes in. What's unknown to that system is whether or not the individual is in remand when they make their first appearance. So that causes a problem with our trying to get a number identifying the total number of individuals in remand or on bail. We have information on

Bill C-35 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  The courts information we have is based on the docket system.

Bill C-35 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Being a reverse onus offence under Bill C-35, we have 871 cases. Notwithstanding the possibility of having two cases for one individual, the number would be 871, less those who were able to prove that they should be allowed to have remand.

Bill C-35 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  It's not possible to do that with the court data set, in and of itself. We know that this is an issue, and what we're working towards for later this year is to have a project to link the courts and the corrections files so that we can add more information to the courts' records

Bill C-35 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  We know remand is growing.

Bill C-35 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  It's more than simply just the docket system. It's the docket system in addition to the way we collect and process the information. Bail first came up as an issue for me, in my professional career, about 10 years ago. We've been working on trying to get a handle on how many peo

Bill C-35 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Yes.

Bill C-35 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Every jurisdiction is providing both integrated criminal court data and integrated correction data. With the release of the new file for courts, we've separated the appearance type and appearance result. We hope we'll be able to speak more to the appearance results related to rem

Bill C-35 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I'm not sure when we're going to see results. We have a project to put together the two data files. Before we see results we've got to work out the methodology, the method for putting those files together, to ensure we've accurately identified individuals in one file and matched

Bill C-35 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  It could.

Bill C-35 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  We can't, with that data set, identify whether or not the individual is in remand.

Bill C-35 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  And for the courts, if it was a Criminal Code charge that had been heard in provincial or superior courts—

Bill C-35 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  We can't speak specifically to plea negotiation. We know whether or not there was a guilty plea, and in those cases the guilty plea is less frequent than we see within the data set as a whole. We expect to see somewhere around 90% guilty pleas. The way the data are organized, i

Bill C-35 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  It becomes a presentation issue, because I may have a case with four or five charges and I'm trying to present those in two dimensions. We can describe the cases, as we've done in this deck, in terms of the most serious offence. One of the characteristics of the cases for this

Bill C-35 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  So whether or not the individual is in remand and then subsequently—?