Table 2
Police-reported incidents of human trafficking, by statute and census metropolitan area, 2010 to 2020


Table 2
Police-reported incidents of human trafficking, by statute and census metropolitan area, 2010 to 2020
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported incidents of human trafficking. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (CMA) (appearing as row headers), Human trafficking incidents reported in 2020, Human trafficking incidents reported in 2010 to 2020, Criminal Code, Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and Total, calculated using number, rate and average annual rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan area (CMA)Table 2 Note 1 Human trafficking incidents reported in 2020 Human trafficking incidents reported in 2010 to 2020
Criminal Code Immigration and Refugee Protection Act Total Criminal Code Immigration and Refugee Protection Act Total
number rate number average annual rateTable 2 Note 2
St. John's 0 0 0 0.0 1 3 4 0.2
Halifax 18 20 38 8.5 78 97 175 3.7
MonctonTable 2 Note 3 0 0 0 0.0 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period
Saint JohnTable 2 Note 3 0 0 0 0.0 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period
Saguenay 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0.0
Québec 2 0 2 0.2 44 2 46 0.5
Sherbrooke 1 0 1 0.5 2 0 2 0.1
Trois-Rivières 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0.0
Montréal 21 2 23 0.5 204 16 220 0.5
GatineauTable 2 Note 4 2 0 2 0.6 30 0 30 0.8
OttawaTable 2 Note 5 23 0 23 2.1 296 9 305 2.7
Kingston 1 1 2 1.2 1 19 20 1.1
BellevilleTable 2 Note 6 2 2 4 3.5 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period
Peterborough 8 11 19 14.7 21 15 36 2.6
TorontoTable 2 Note 7 43 41 84 1.4 374 236 610 1.0
HamiltonTable 2 Note 8 6 9 15 2.6 53 55 108 1.8
St. Catharines–Niagara 3 28 31 6.4 28 65 93 1.8
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 17 2 19 3.1 48 12 60 1.0
Brantford 3 0 3 2.0 9 4 13 0.8
Guelph 2 1 3 2.1 8 3 11 0.7
London 13 0 13 2.3 77 27 104 1.8
Windsor 11 4 15 4.2 24 64 88 2.3
Barrie 8 4 12 4.6 29 23 52 2.0
Greater Sudbury 3 0 3 1.8 25 1 26 1.4
Thunder Bay 20 0 20 15.9 35 6 41 3.0
Winnipeg 0 0 0 0.0 20 1 21 0.2
Regina 0 1 1 0.4 4 6 10 0.4
Saskatoon 16 0 16 4.7 40 6 46 1.3
LethbridgeTable 2 Note 6 0 0 0 0.0 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period
Calgary 6 4 10 0.6 41 11 52 0.3
Edmonton 9 8 17 1.2 44 36 80 0.5
Kelowna 3 0 3 1.4 16 0 16 0.7
Abbotsford–Mission 1 0 1 0.5 2 0 2 0.1
Vancouver 17 0 17 0.6 89 7 96 0.3
Victoria 5 0 5 1.2 13 0 13 0.3
CMA totalTable 2 Note 9 286 138 424 1.6 1,830 740 2,570 0.9
Non-CMA total 56 35 91 0.9 257 150 407 0.3
Canada 342 173 515 1.4 2,087 890 2,977 0.7
.. not available for a specific reference period
Note 1

A census metropolitan area (CMA) consists of one or more neighbouring municipalities situated around a major urban core. A CMA must have a total population of at least 100,000, of which 50,000 or more live in the urban core. To be included in the CMA, adjacent municipalities must have a high degree of integration with the central urban area, as measured by commuting flows derived from census data. A CMA typically comprises more than one police service. CMA populations have been adjusted to follow policing boundaries. The Oshawa CMA is excluded from this table due to the incongruity between the police service jurisdictional boundaries and the CMA boundaries.

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Note 2

This rate is the average of the annual rates from 2010 to 2020.

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Note 3

Part way through 2013, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police revised policing boundaries for rural detachments in New Brunswick. This resulted in a change in the census metropolitan area (CMA) boundaries that are determined for the purpose of reporting crime statistics. As such, data from 2014 to 2020 for the New Brunswick CMAs of Saint John and Moncton are not comparable to previous years.

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Note 4

Gatineau refers to the Quebec part of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area.

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Note 5

Ottawa refers to the Ontario part of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area.

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Note 6

Following the 2016 Census of Population, Belleville and Lethbridge were reclassified as census metropolitan areas. As such, data for the 2010-2020 period are not available.

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Note 7

Excludes the portions of the Halton Regional Police Service and the Durham Regional Police Service that police the census metropolitan area of Toronto.

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Note 8

Excludes the portion of the Halton Regional Police Service that polices the census metropolitan area of Hamilton.

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Note 9

Includes Halton Regional Police Service and Durham Regional Police Service, which are responsible for policing more than one census metropolitan area (CMA). This total also includes the portion of the Durham Regional Police Service that polices the Oshawa CMA. This also includes the CMA of Saint John, excluding the Saint John Police Service due to data quality concerns. Because of these inclusions, the CMA total will not equal the total of the individual CMAs.

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Note: This analysis is based on aggregate data, and counts are based on the most serious violation in a criminal incident. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based upon July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. The Uniform Crime Reporting Survey was amended in 2011 to allow police services to report the specific offence of human trafficking under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. Once the specific violation code was introduced, a small number of incidents which took place prior to this date were reported.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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