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  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  Yes, they are.

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  If you look at the graph, on the left hand side the legend is showing it's the percentage of the guilty cases. If we look at that graph in terms of the percentage of the guilty cases, for violent cases, it's approximately 17% of all cases going before the courts, and if you look

Justice committee  Sorry, it would be going to custody. Excuse me.

Justice committee  In 1998, if you add those two together, you would have slightly over 55% of cases where they are guilty being sentenced to custody. If you look at that trend over time, we are now closer to 35%, 37%.

Justice committee  The rest of those would have gone to probations, fines, and other things, when you take the entirety of all cases found guilty.

Justice committee  I'll ask Ms. Kong to respond about the Quebec data. I don't have specific information about Quebec and the recidivism rate in front of me, unless others brought it with them.

Justice committee  I will refer you to the crime Juristat that was provided to you with the materials that were sent out, the “Police-reported crime statistics in Canada, 2009”. In there, at the end, a number of detailed data tables will provide you with time series information for the last ten yea

Justice committee  Yes. That information was released by Statistics Canada in July of 2010 through the daily publication. We brought this as a table drop today, but it is publicly available on the Statistics Canada website.

Justice committee  I would have to check with our parliamentary relations officer if it was sent in advance. She's letting me know that the materials were sent last week.

Justice committee  It's just before the references at the end of the article.