Justice committee  For some offences, it may not be possible to break it out for a long period of time. Prior to 2008, a number of these offences were grouped into a much larger category.

Justice committee  I can't confirm the statement by a previous witness. I can talk about the data that I have access to and can analyze, and I can show you the outcomes of criminal court cases that have child victims for those offences that I can identify. That doesn't include sexual assault, becau

Justice committee  So you're talking about sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, and those kinds of offences.

Justice committee  It's not possible to isolate any information on the victim for sexual assault using simply the information we collect based upon the Criminal Code. Sections 271, 272, and 273 don't have any details on the victim. It's the nature of the offence, not the victim, that is included in

Justice committee  The sexual offences against children that we can identify in the courts are identified on page 13, which shows the most serious offences in cases containing at least one guilty verdict. The top line shows the increase in the use of custody for those types of offences. In 2008-200

Justice committee  It's for all offences in criminal court. I can provide a more detailed breakdown of that if you would like.

Justice committee  That's correct.

Justice committee  Those would be the mandatory minimums brought in in 2005, which were the 14-day and 30-day ones. They are shorter mandatory minimums than some other mandatory minimums that currently exist in the Criminal Code.

Justice committee  Yes, it is possible, but prior to 2005, it would also be possible for probation or a conditional sentence to be a sentence for those offences. After 2005, conditional sentencing would not have been a valid sentence.

Justice committee  Yes, that's right.

Justice committee  What I can tell you about those lines and about how they're changing is that if there were mandatory minimums in place in 2005, and there were more cases going into custody, and those mandatory minimums were short, then it's possible that you would see an increase in those shorte

Justice committee  I'm not aware of a minimum for auto theft. It's not something I've researched. I know that for auto theft, in looking at the court data, the only options are sections 334 or 335, and the annotations in the code suggest that either section would be appropriate, depending on the ci

Justice committee  That is correct.

Justice committee  One of the additional caveats I can add is that the dates in here represent completed cases. At the time of the implementation of the YCJA, there would have been cases in the system that were still pending when the YCJA was enacted on April 1, 2003.

Justice committee  I know one of the considerations is that over the years, impaired driving offences, as well as drug offences, have been particularly susceptible to enforcement practices, so there can be a lot of variability in those rates from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.