Status of Women committee  Are you referring to slide 5 of the deck?

Status of Women committee  Okay. Yes, exactly. Ms. AuCoin, does the 2019 survey provide more details on the forms of abuse?

Status of Women committee  Very good. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. Thank you for the opportunity to present our findings, which I hope will give you insight into the demand for shelter space among women seeking help because of intimate partner violence. I will be presenting data collected through

Justice committee  It is very hard to have a good measure of what is really happening versus what is being reported to the police. We do have a survey on victimization that asks about the victimization experiences of all Canadians. We find that only five per cent of victims of sexual assaults repor

Justice committee  We cannot measure that kind of results. The only results we can measure are those related to the criminal justice system, that is, those provided by the police, the courts and correctional services. Outside that system, we cannot determine what percentage of victims of human traf

Justice committee  Once again, that is an excellent question. Although the number of cases of human trafficking is 11 times higher, the number is still not high as for other types of crimes. As to determining whether a crime has been resolved, according to police definitions, there are two catego

Justice committee  Making a recommendation as such to increase the scope, for example, of the integrated criminal court survey could be made through Statistics Canada, because we have interactions with all Departments of Justice in the country, and we have a committee of liaison officers reporting

Justice committee  That is an excellent suggestion. That said, it is quite difficult to make international comparisons with regard to human trafficking, in particular because definitions can differ among jurisdictions. We have not conducted a specific study to see how countries compare with respect

Justice committee  This is a very good question. The reasons a prosecutor would withdraw a charge are those I mentioned. They either saw that the probability of conviction was very low, or they lacked information to go on and pursue the case. It could even be that it's not in the public interest. F

Justice committee  The information we have is that a very high number of cases are withdrawn and stayed—about 60%.

Justice committee  We don't have the information about what happens to the case afterward. The only thing we know is that they were probably withdrawn because reasonable and probable grounds did not exist to lay a charge, or the probability of conviction was judged to be too low by the crown so it

Justice committee  The definition we use is the one in the Criminal Code, which I described in the four different offences. I would say this is the universal definition we use nationally. Of course, this could vary from one country to another.

Justice committee  Yes. The application of these codes from one jurisdiction or one police force to another may vary. It could be the case in some instances, for example, that a police force may decide they would use another Criminal Code offence to lay their charge, and the prosecutor as well. Tha

Justice committee  It's coming from two different sources, including the uniform crime reporting survey, which covers 99% of all police forces in the country. The uniform crime reporting survey collects detailed information about each criminal incident being reported to the police, and it collects

Justice committee  Like I mentioned at the outset of the presentation, we have reasons to believe that there could be under-reporting when we look only at police reported statistics. However, these police reported statistics represent a very accurate picture of what comes into the criminal justice