Justice committee  CDSA is the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

Justice committee  That represents the most serious sentence for the most serious offence in the case, and each case can include multiple charges.

Justice committee  That's correct. It includes all cases.

Justice committee  It includes all cases—Criminal Code and other federal statutes. So it would also include CDSA offences and others.

Justice committee  The way the data have been organized for this chart is that all the violent cases would include homicide, attempted murder, robbery, sexual assault, other sexual offences, common assault, criminal harassment, uttering threats, and other crimes against a person. The non-violent c

Justice committee  The overall percentage is around 15% going into custody. You're not simply adding those. You have to rework the percentages because we're talking about percentages.

Justice committee  In 1998, 29% of guilty cases were sentenced to custody--that's either opened or closed custody--and that declined, up until the introduction of the YCJA, down to approximately 22%. For the first year of the YCJA, it was 22%--2003-04--and it's now 15%.

Justice committee  I can't comment on the rate of recidivism in Quebec, but I do have some statistics in front of me on the proportion sentenced to custody in Quebec and all provinces. In 1999-2000 the proportion sentenced to custody for guilty cases in Quebec was 23%. The national total was 28%. I

Justice committee  In youth court there are a number of other decision types that are a result of the YCJA, so there is a much larger category in “other” for youth court.

Justice committee  For the criminal court, if you turn to slide 23 in the supplemental section of the presentation, the offences that are included in the other sexual offences are broken down, and those are the charges that are completed in court in the cases that contain at least one of those char

Justice committee  This is different from police incidents. This is completed charges in a criminal court.

Justice committee  Yes. I don't have that information in front of me, but I can provide it to the clerk.

Justice committee  Well, it would have been acquitted, stayed, withdrawn, dismissed, discharged, or some other final decision.

Justice committee  Are you talking about type of final decision?

Justice committee  An “other” final decision would include matters that were waived to a superior court in those jurisdictions that don't provide superior court data, and there are very few right now. It would also include being unfit for trial or loss of jurisdiction or nullity. There are very f