Table 6
Cases before youth courts by type of decision, Canada, provinces and territories, 2006/2007

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  Total cases Decision
Found guilty1 Acquittal Stayed Withdrawn / dismissed Other2
number number percent number percent number percent number percent number percent
Canada 56,463 34,065 60 727 1.3 9,098 16.1 12,196 21.6 377 0.7
Newfoundland and Labrador3 738 563 76 2 0.3 61 8.3 107 14.5 5 0.7
Prince Edward Island 209 153 73 0 0.0 55 26.3 1 0.5 0 0.0
Nova Scotia 1,798 1,118 62 39 2.2 48 2.7 585 32.5 8 0.4
New Brunswick 1,174 1,035 88 6 0.5 0 0.0 127 10.8 6 0.5
Quebec4 6,653 4,761 72 366 5.5 1,083 16.3 429 6.4 14 0.2
Ontario 25,102 13,833 55 112 0.4 3,723 14.8 7,268 29.0 166 0.7
Manitoba 3,076 2,051 67 9 0.3 1,013 32.9 3 0.1 0 0.0
Saskatchewan 5,165 2,945 57 30 0.6 535 10.4 1,637 31.7 18 0.3
Alberta 8,016 4,496 56 58 0.7 1,434 17.9 1,910 23.8 118 1.5
British Columbia 4,065 2,811 69 102 2.5 1,077 26.5 45 1.1 30 0.7
Yukon 90 41 46 1 1.1 19 21.1 27 30.0 2 2.2
Northwest Territories 186 131 70 0 0.0 19 10.2 34 18.3 2 1.1
Nunavut5 191 127 66 2 1.0 31 16.2 23 12.0 8 4.2
0 true zero or a value rounded to zero
  1. Found guilty decisions include absolute and conditional discharges.
  2. Other decisions include transferred to another province/territory, unfit to stand trial and not guilty by reason of insanity.
  3. In Newfoundland and Labrador, the terms acquittal and dismissed are used interchangeably.
  4. The number of acquittals may be over-reported due to administrative practices.
  5. Total case counts may be underreported for Nunavut, as there may be charge and case information from remote areas that is entered into their caseload management system several months after sending their data submission for the Youth Court Survey.
Note: Due to rounding, percentages may not add to 100.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Youth Court Survey.