Justice committee  Justice Canada has access to many of these tabulations and from time to time requests aggregate data sets for policy development. They may have put together some data related to conditional sentencing, but I haven't seen any analysis of those data.

Justice committee  That's right.

Justice committee  That's correct.

Justice committee  I'll just repeat that when we put together the prison sentence population for this data set, we excluded all those that had a sentence length that indicated a federal sentence, so any of those that got two years or more were excluded from that population. What this data set can

Justice committee  We know that approximately half had no prior conviction. Of the total of approximately 10,000 persons convicted in 2003-2004, looking at their last conviction in that year, roughly half had a prior conviction. Half had no prior conviction and half had prior conviction.

Justice committee  On your first point, about the statistics for Quebec, we do collect criminal court data for Quebec, but unfortunately at this time they are unable to provide us with conditional sentencing data. It's one of two limitations in the data sent from Quebec. The other is that we don't

Justice committee  The age of the offender is something we could look at. We didn't for this presentation. It is something that is collected within the data set, but it wasn't one of the items we analyzed for this. We could certainly put together something for the committee that identifies the age

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  The other thing I can mention about the prison sentences is that this doesn't take into consideration time in custody, pre-trial custody. So the prison sentence is the prison sentence ordered at the time of a guilty finding.

Justice committee  I can't currently speak to that with these data.

Justice committee  There are a couple of problems involved in putting those data together. First, for the vast majority of the country, there's no court data going back prior to roughly 1994-95. I wouldn't be able to put together any data related to the conviction history of those individuals, or

Justice committee  For court data it's 1994-95. There is some data prior to that, but then we're talking about a very small part of the country. We have roughly 80% going back to 1994-95.

Justice committee  For those offences in the legislative summary?

Justice committee  Yes, where there is a match; when there's a new offence and we have a new section, subsection, and paragraph, it will start at the time when we start receiving data. I'll put together what I can for you and provide it to the committee.

Justice committee  If we break down the categories, we have 27% for crimes against the person; 32% for crimes against property; 10% for administration of justice offences; 4% for other Criminal Code offences; 7% for Criminal Code traffic; and 19% for other federal statutes, which would include the