Justice committee  No, we are not able to provide that information. The only information, as Karen mentioned, that we have at the moment is the number of offences of luring that we're able to present.

Justice committee  We do have data—I believe we've brought some with us—and we can supply others on the numbers of cases that are withdrawn or stayed, but we can't speak to any underlying reasons for why that happens. We can count the incidents but not speak to the reasons for why.

Justice committee  No, we do not.

Justice committee  What I can speak to is what we know and what we've seen in the data. I'll reiterate some of the information that we do know in terms of statistics. We do know from our 2004 general social survey on victimization—this covers the population for ages 15 and over, it doesn't cover t

Justice committee  Thank you for the opportunity to present to the committee, Mr. Chairman, data relevant to your consideration of Bill C-22. You have the presentation information with you. We will present to you police-reported information on children and youths as victims of sexual offences as t

Justice committee  The homicide rate we have presented in slide 4 is the national homicide rate, and slide 7 refers to the specific homicide rates within those particular cities.

Justice committee  That's correct.

Justice committee  Just for clarification, your question is not whether it would have a bearing on the number of incidents, but whether it would have a bearing on the length of sentences?

Justice committee  With our information, we can tell you the trends over a certain time period. We cannot predict the impact of any future trends, so we can't speculate on what may happen. There are many, many factors that can impact--

Justice committee  Yes, it's in slide 6, which indicates the different points of legislation. As I said, we didn't do that for any intention of causality, but we have not done any systematic analysis beyond this.

Justice committee  It's a very difficult question for me to answer because precisely what it is that we would be looking at is--

Justice committee  Yes, that would be very good to know.

Justice committee  The actual number of homicides?

Justice committee  I can give you 2005 now and John can give you the rest because he has the numbers. There were 658 homicides in 2005; 222 homicides were firearm homicides. John will give you the previous numbers.

Justice committee  We can give you the number of gang-related homicides, and I believe we can also talk to the type of firearm involved in gang-related homicides.