Justice committee  Before letting Mr. Martin reply to that, I can say that we can provide a little information from the correctional services data that we have, but we're not able to conduct that analysis within our courts data program.

Justice committee  If I understood the question you posed, within this graphic that you see on page 16, we were not able to take into account any prior conviction history within these populations. These were those who left correctional supervision in 2003-2004 after having served the type of senten

Justice committee  There are several factors that we were not able to take into account when conducting the analysis. Prior conviction history, as I mentioned, is one that we are not able to take into account. In interpreting the results of this graphic, one has to be cautious in the fact of keepi

Justice committee  There are a few points in response to your question. That's a very difficult definitive number to be able to provide. In our analysis to date within slide 12 that you referred to, what we did was take the Bill C-9 Criminal Code listed offences that were at the end of the legisla

Justice committee  We haven't specifically looked at the crime rates internationally in that context.

Justice committee  These are our courts data, so there are some exclusions. We cover about 70% of the national criminal court workload, so we have about 70% coverage. It's really important to make the point here that the 4,800, let's say, individuals are those who would have been convicted of one

Justice committee  We can't answer that particular question with our data set. Our information on breaches is what you've seen from slide 15. For those jurisdictions, New Brunswick and Saskatchewan, where we have the data, we're able to look at the breaches that resulted in an admission to custod

Justice committee  In our court's data program, we do not have an aboriginal identifier, so we are unable to conduct the court's analysis for aboriginal and non-aboriginal populations. Michael has presented some data from the correctional services program, and he can perhaps speak to the availabil

Justice committee  We have been collecting data on police-reported crimes since the early sixties.

Justice committee  From our data we have a total count of the conditional sentences in 2003-04 that were crimes-against-person convictions. We can give you the number; just over 3,600 of the conditional sentences were awarded for crimes against persons. That is over a total of 13,267, so it's just

Justice committee  First of all, I'd like to be very clear in what we're presenting in chart 16, the last chart of the presentation. It looks at reinvolvement with the corrections system after a sentence has been served, and it looks at reinvolvement within a period of twelve months. That's what th

Justice committee  We don't collect those data within our data. We can't speak to overall breaches. We can only speak to those breaches that result in an admission to custody.

Justice committee  Certainly; I can explain that chart. As a reminder about what we've done in chart 12, we've taken the Criminal Code offences that were listed at the end of the Bill C-9 legislative summary and applied them to our 2003-2004 data. We've done this overall and you can see it by offe

Justice committee  What I am saying is that you cannot necessarily draw the conclusion that this is only due to a conditional sentence. There are other factors that may be at play here.

Justice committee  When you look at these data, as you say, there are many factors that could be going on behind the data. You could have prior history information that's going on behind the data that we did not take account of. You could have risk assessment going on within the data that we cannot