Status of Women committee  You see, it's a hybrid survey. There's always an e-questionnaire on the Internet too so they can reach them and follow them.

Status of Women committee  I'll start, but then I'll let then the specialists on homicide surveys speak. We don't measure “missing”. We only measure “murdered”, which is a big distinction. Homicide is probably the type of crime for which the resolution rate is the highest because there's huge effort put

Status of Women committee  Prior to any survey, we do focus group sessions where we try to invite different types of people to respond and see what could be caveats around the way we ask questions and how we address things to make sure that we don't bias the results. There are other international surveys o

Status of Women committee  Of the perpetrators?

Status of Women committee  For some types of violence we can have age and sex of the perpetrator, and for spousal we can have ethnic origin.

Status of Women committee  Yes, definitely.

Status of Women committee  We did a report we published I think last June. It's on crime in the provincial north. Geographically speaking, we broke down each province between north and south. We've observed that northern Saskatchewan and northern Manitoba have higher crime rates, comparable to those of the

Justice committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I would like to begin by thanking you, as well as the members of this committee, for the invitation to present today on the most recent legal aid survey data in this country. I am accompanied by Ms. Josée Savoie, who is the chief of the Courts Pro

Justice committee  No, we don't have that detail of statistics. I think it's a subcategory that is lumped with other sources of financing, so it's not possible in this aggregate survey to provide that detailed information.

Justice committee  It's part of the consultation right now in terms of determining what are information needs are regarding that. Having an aggregate survey limits us to a certain extent to the amount of information we can collect because the legal aid survey is not a survey that is collecting info

Justice committee  The other source of data we have is another survey, the integrated criminal court survey, from which we have detailed information about each case being processed by the court system. We do ask for jurisdiction to provide legal representation, for example. That would be the closes

Justice committee  Unfortunately, we don't. We know the reasons why they were refused. In the presentation, we stated some numbers about reasons why they were refused. Some are monetary. Some don't qualify. We have the breakdown regarding the rate of acceptances. It's been on average over the 10-ye

Justice committee  Unfortunately, we can't. The only breakdown information we get for those who are refused is about the reasons why they were refused, like—

Justice committee  This is an aggregate survey. It is a form that goes to legal aid plans. They're filling out a form about the number of cases they've been receiving applications from and the reason why they've received the application, but we don't collect each individual case in this particular

Justice committee  The ones we're listing here are coverage restrictions, which is a quarter of them. There is lack of merit, 6%; non-compliance or abuse, 2%; and other reasons, 15%, but we don't know what these other reasons would be.