Table 7
Police-reported drug offences, by type of offence, by province and territory, 2007
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| Province and territory | Total drugs | Possession | Trafficking | Production, importation and exportation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | rate1 | number | rate1 | number | rate1 | number | rate1 | |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 857 | 169.3 | 509 | 100.5 | 320 | 63.2 | 28 | 5.5 |
| Prince Edward Island | 197 | 142.1 | 94 | 67.8 | 97 | 70.0 | 6 | 4.3 |
| Nova Scotia | 2,506 | 268.3 | 1,593 | 170.5 | 701 | 75.0 | 212 | 22.7 |
| New Brunswick | 1,874 | 249.9 | 1,085 | 144.7 | 584 | 77.9 | 205 | 27.3 |
| Quebec | 20,357 | 264.3 | 12,958 | 168.3 | 3,978 | 51.7 | 3,421 | 44.4 |
| Ontario | 31,018 | 242.3 | 21,399 | 167.1 | 7,284 | 56.9 | 2,335 | 18.2 |
| Manitoba | 2,466 | 207.8 | 1,151 | 97.0 | 1,191 | 100.4 | 124 | 10.4 |
| Saskatchewan | 2,851 | 286.0 | 1,993 | 199.9 | 808 | 81.1 | 50 | 5.0 |
| Alberta | 9,092 | 261.7 | 5,815 | 167.4 | 3,139 | 90.4 | 138 | 4.0 |
| British Columbia | 28,632 | 653.7 | 20,950 | 478.3 | 5,039 | 115.0 | 2,643 | 60.3 |
| Yukon | 209 | 674.4 | 132 | 426.0 | 76 | 245.2 | 1 | 3.2 |
| Northwest Territories | 456 | 1,069.5 | 278 | 652.0 | 177 | 415.1 | 1 | 2.3 |
| Nunavut | 160 | 514.3 | 72 | 231.4 | 85 | 273.2 | 3 | 9.6 |
| Canada | 100,675 | 305.3 | 68,029 | 206.3 | 23,479 | 71.2 | 9,167 | 27.8 |
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1. Rates are calculated per 100,000 population. Population estimates are from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Aggregate Uniform Crime Reporting Survey. |
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