Table 2
Forcible confinement, by census metropolitan area, 2007

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Census metropolitan area1, 2, 3 Number of incidents4 Rate5 Percentage change in rate 1997 to 2007
500,000 and over population
Montréal 754 20.2 18
Winnipeg 107 14.6 2,342
Toronto 789 14.3 65
Ottawa6 117 13.1 996
Edmonton 141 12.9 171
Calgary 136 11.9 11
Vancouver 237 10.4 108
Hamilton 57 8.1 324
Québec 30 4.1 42
100,000 to less than 500,000 population
Thunder Bay 26 21.2 243
Saskatoon 49 19.6 9
Halifax 68 17.6 442
Gatineau7 51 17.4 54
Kitchener 83 16.7 294
Greater Sudbury 23 14.2 297
Windsor 47 14.1 139
Regina 27 13.3 -37
London 56 11.7 963
Saguenay 17 11.7 389
Sherbrooke 17 11.3 312
Abbotsford8 18 10.6 226
Trois-Rivières 15 10.2 59
Saint John 10 9.9 513
St. John's 15 8.2 614
St.Catharines-Niagara 29 6.7 0
Victoria 21 6.2 27
Kingston8 9 5.9 -1
Canada 4,595 13.9 121

1. A census metropolitan area (CMA) refers to a large urban core (at least 100,000 population) combined with adjacent urban and rural areas that have a high degree of economic and social integration. A CMA typically comprises more than one police service.
2.CMA populations have been adjusted to follow policing boundaries.
3. The CMA of Oshawa is excluded from this table due to the incongruity between the police service jurisdictional boundaries and the CMA boundaries.
4. Includes incidents of kidnapping.
5. Rates are calculated per 100,000 population. Population estimates are from Statistics Canada, Demography Division.
6. Refers to the Ontario part of the Ottawa-Gatineau CMA.
7. Refers to the Quebec part of the Ottawa-Gatineau CMA.
8. Abbotsford and Kingston became CMAs in 2001. As such, the percent change in the rate is calculated from 2001 to 2007.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Aggregate Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey.
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