Justice committee  We would be happy to go back and confirm that for you and provide that information to the clerk for distribution.

Justice committee  As you can see on slide 5, every year we can look at the number or the age of the persons who are accused of police-reported motor vehicle theft, and we can do this over time. Consistently we have seen that the graph is skewed to people who are in the younger age groups, and we c

Justice committee  Do you mean in terms of the time series of auto theft?

Justice committee  The second slide, which looks at the police-reported motor vehicle thefts in Canada, covers the time period from 1977 through to 2009, during which you can see that there has been fluctuation. If you look at that graph, you can see that there was a period, starting about 1982, th

Justice committee  Exactly. In the supplementary information that we gave you there is a series of data tables, and the exact numbers are included in those tables.

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

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