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  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  In terms of youth who are accused, in 2009 it was approximately three of ten persons would be of the age 12 to 17. So they would be tried under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

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  Yes, it does.

Justice committee  We look at land-based motor vehicle theft, which includes cars, trucks, vans, sport utility vehicles, motorcycles, buses, snowmobiles, things like that.

Justice committee  We can separate them out and supply that to the committee, if you would like.

Justice committee  Yes, you are reading that correctly.

Justice committee  Yes, you are.

Justice committee  Thank you very much, and thank you for the opportunity to present to the committee on the act to protect children from sexual predators. Statistics Canada does not take a position on the bill. The presentation we have prepared contains our most recent data on the sexual offenc

Justice committee  Oh, forgive me. More incidents were reported of females aged 12 to 17 being the victims than for those in other age groups, whereas the number of incidents for boys remained relatively stable regardless of age.

Justice committee  Slide 5 provides an overview of the ages of victims of police-reported other sexual offences committed against children. While females are more likely than males to be victims, the distribution of the victim's age is different from what we saw on slide 4 for sexual assaults. Whil

Justice committee  Yes.