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Table 5
Police-reported crime for selected drug offences, by province or territory, 2020

Table 5
Police-reported crime for selected drug offences, by province or territory, 2020
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported crime for selected drug offences. The information is grouped by Province or territory (appearing as row headers), Total Cannabis, Cocaine, Methamphetamine and Ecstasy, calculated using number, rate and percent change in rate 2019 to 2020 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province or territory	Total Cannabis^{Table 5 Note 1}^{Table 5 Note 2}			Cocaine^{Table 5 Note 3}			Methamphetamine^{Table 5 Note 3}			Ecstasy^{Table 5 Note 3}
Province or territory	number	rate	percent change in rate 2019 to 2020^{Table 5 Note 4}	number	rate	percent change in rate 2019 to 2020^{Table 5 Note 4}	number	rate	percent change in rate 2019 to 2020^{Table 5 Note 4}	number	rate	percent change in rate 2019 to 2020^{Table 5 Note 4}
Newfoundland and Labrador	93	18	-13	554	106	18	4	1	Note ...: not applicable	5	1	Note ...: not applicable
Prince Edward Island	7	4	-31	53	33	4	45	28	111	0	0	Note ...: not applicable
Nova Scotia	182	19	-12	485	50	7	56	6	1	10	1	65
New Brunswick	182	23	7	371	47	23	491	63	47	19	2	-10
Quebec^{Table 5 Note 5}	3,616	42	-57	2,251	26	-11	2,657	31	-7	353	4	-8
Ontario	2,650	18	-15	4,298	29	4	2,826	19	8	76	1	32
Manitoba	139	10	-5	1,249	91	37	689	50	-9	14	1	132
Saskatchewan	152	13	-5	794	67	7	1,087	92	1	14	1	132
Alberta	263	6	-27	1,806	41	-10	3,004	68	-20	28	1	-34
British Columbia^{Table 5 Note 5}	5,233	102	30	2,966	58	-16	3,103	60	-6	104	2	-28
Yukon	9	21	-11	217	516	6	6	14	Note ...: not applicable	1	2	Note ...: not applicable
Northwest Territories	27	60	-10	302	669	12	5	11	Note ...: not applicable	2	4	Note ...: not applicable
Nunavut	38	97	119	10	25	-18	2	5	Note ...: not applicable	1	3	Note ...: not applicable
Canada	12,591	33	-25	15,356	40	-2	13,975	37	-5	627	2	-7

Table 5 Continued
Police-reported crime for selected drug offences, by province or territory, 2020
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported crime for selected drug offences. The information is grouped by Province or territory (appearing as row headers), Opioids, Heroin, Other drugs and Total drugs, calculated using number, rate and percent change in rate 2019 to 2020 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province or territory	Opioids^{Table 5 Note 3}			Heroin^{Table 5 Note 3}			Other drugs^{Table 5 Note 3}^{Table 5 Note 6}			Total drugs^{Table 5 Note 3}
Province or territory	number	rate	percent change in rate 2019 to 2020^{Table 5 Note 4}	number	rate	percent change in rate 2019 to 2020^{Table 5 Note 4}	number	rate	percent change in rate 2019 to 2020^{Table 5 Note 4}	number	rate	percent change in rate 2019 to 2020^{Table 5 Note 4}
Newfoundland and Labrador	21	4	-36	3	1	Note ...: not applicable	230	44	-5	910	174	6
Prince Edward Island	8	5	-1	4	3	Note ...: not applicable	63	39	19	180	113	23
Nova Scotia	33	3	-9	7	1	Note ...: not applicable	315	32	-11	1,088	111	-3
New Brunswick	47	6	42	13	2	8	406	52	20	1,529	196	26
Quebec	67	1	80	153	2	-10	4,473	52	2	13,570	158	-28
Ontario	1,536	10	38	883	6	2	3,146	21	14	15,415	105	5
Manitoba	44	3	9	39	3	61	292	21	6	2,466	179	14
Saskatchewan	92	8	99	17	1	-6	428	36	16	2,584	219	7
Alberta	513	12	-1	382	9	-9	1,900	43	20	7,896	179	-9
British Columbia	2,772	54	40	1,240	24	-28	5,052	98	-5	20,470	398	2
Yukon	8	19	Note ...: not applicable	13	31	114	36	86	54	290	690	18
Northwest Territories	1	2	Note ...: not applicable	1	2	Note ...: not applicable	32	71	-26	370	819	6
Nunavut	0	0	Note ...: not applicable	0	0	Note ...: not applicable	8	20	57	59	150	52
Canada	5,142	14	34	2,755	7	-15	16,381	43	4	66,827	176	-5
... not applicable Note 1 Includes all possession, trafficking, production or import/export cannabis-related offences under the CDSA legislation prior to the coming into force of the Cannabis Act on October 17, 2018, as well as all cannabis-related offences under the Cannabis Act. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes possession, trafficking, production or import/export. As a result of the coming into force of the Cannabis Act on October 17, 2018, all prior cannabis-related legislation under the CDSA has been replaced with the Cannabis Act. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes possession, trafficking, production and importation/exportation. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Due to the variability in small numbers, percent changes have not been calculated when the number of offences is below five in any given year. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 The Montréal CMA in Quebec accounted for the majority of the national decrease in importation or exportation offences reported under the Cannabis Act, decreasing 72% (4,180 fewer incidents) from 2019 to 2020. The large decrease in offences year-over-year was due in part to fewer postal seizures and seizures conducted by the Canada Border Services Agency in Montréal since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, the Vancouver CMA in British Columbia accounted for 56% of all importation or exportation offences reported under the Cannabis Act (4,194 of the 7,552 offences reported nationally). The high proportion of offences was due in part to seizure cases, conducted by the Canada Border Services Agency and the Canada Post Mail Centre in the Vancouver CMA, being forwarded for processing and investigation. As a result of this exchange, the year in which occurrences were reported by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police may not always correspond to the year in which they occurred. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Includes all other drugs listed under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA), such as prescription drugs, barbiturates, LSD and "drugs used to facilitate sexual assault." Trafficking and production of other drugs includes the possession, production, sale or importation of anything (such as precursors) with the knowledge that it will be used in the production or trafficking of a controlled substance (as defined in section 2(1) of the CDSA). Return to note 6 referrer Note: Police-reported statistics may be affected by differences in the way police services deal with offences. In some instances, police or municipalities might choose to deal with some offences using municipal bylaws or provincial provisions rather than Criminal Code provisions. Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple violations. Data for specific types of crime are available, in most cases, from 1977. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Percent changes are based on unrounded rates. Populations are based upon July 1^st estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Date modified:: 2021-07-27