Justice committee  Thank you for the opportunity to present to the committee this morning on organized crime. My colleagues, Mr. Craig Grimes and Ms. Mia Dauvergne, will assist me in answering any questions you may have. If you would please turn to the first slide in the deck, this is the first o

Justice committee  Those are our standard release dates for those provinces.

Justice committee  Maybe I'll start, and I'll turn to my colleague, Craig, in a moment. The releases you see here are the standard releases we would have on an annual basis from Statistics Canada, apart from the victimization in Canada release, which comes from the general social survey. That's a

Justice committee  Some of the questions would have been modified based on user feedback we had from 2004, but grosso modo, the same questions were asked.

Justice committee  Yes, and we'd be happy to provide that to you, if you wish.

Justice committee  We would have to get back to you to let you know the exact location. We're happy to do that with these data.

Justice committee  It could be an explanation. We would have to go back and talk with the people who provided us with the data to confirm, but again, it could be.

Justice committee  We don't have those figures in front of us. We would be happy to go back and provide those to the committee for the serious offences you would like us to give you, but we don't have the information right now, so we wouldn't be able to comment.

Justice committee  Thank you for the opportunity to present to the committee regarding Bill C-4. Statistics Canada does not take a position on the proposed amendments in the bill. The presentation we have prepared contains our most recent data on youth criminal justice. All data sources used are

Justice committee  So what we have provided you today is the pattern of youth crime split by violent and non-violent. But the actual youth crime, looking at the 2008 figures, is—

Justice committee  It's in the police-reported crime statistics in Canada, 2008, from Juristat, which I don't think was tabled. I think we tabled three other ones. For 2008, it was 6,454 per 100,000 youth population.

Justice committee  We are currently working with police departments across the country, and we did a feasibility in Saskatchewan to look at whether that information could be collected directly at the time of interview. That was discussed at the deputy ministers of justice meeting in January, where

Justice committee  Once the person is in either remand or sentence custody, we have that information.

Justice committee  Yes, we can provide you with that information.

Justice committee  Thank you very much, and thank you for the opportunity to present to the committee regarding Bill S-9. Statistics Canada does not take a position on the proposed amendments in the bill. The presentation we have prepared contains our most recent data on motor vehicle thefts. All