Justice committee  All we can provide to you is the data. We wouldn't be able to provide you with the explanation underlying the data. What the graph is showing you is the trend in non-violent and violent cases that are sentenced to custody, over time. We can look at that percentage and we can see

Justice committee  I think the presentation has been distributed. 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 yout

Justice committee  All we can report on are the numbers that are provided to us through the police services and through the courts. We wouldn't be able to provide you with any indication as to why there might be that geographical variation. We know that there is a fair amount of geographical variat

Justice committee  Do you mean looking at the age comparison between the victim and the accused?

Justice committee  We would be able to do that for you.

Justice committee  Just for clarification on our end, would you like that for all sexual offences that are considered under this bill?

Justice committee  It's just the ones under this bill. Okay, we can do that.

Justice committee  When we are looking at this, we are looking at people 0-17 years of age.

Justice committee  No, we can break it down any way you would want. As you can see in the slides we presented, we've been able to group 0-5 years, 6-11, and 12-17. Depending on the subject matter, we'll just do a 0-11 and a 12-17 grouping. If there are data that you would like to see broken down in

Justice committee  Depending on the topic, we will either refer to them as “children” or as “children and youth”, children being aged up to 11 years and youth being aged 12 to 17.

Justice committee  No, 18-year-olds would not be included.

Justice committee  It's from 0 through to and including age 17.

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  Yes, we do, so we would be able to provide you with breakdowns if you like.

Justice committee  We did a presentation either last week or the week before to the Senate standing committee, looking at exactly that. I don't have the slides or the background information in front of me, but I'd be happy to provide it to the clerk. Some of these are new offences that have recentl