Table 6
Incidents of online sexual offences against children and accused persons in police-reported online child sexual exploitation, by province or territory, Canada, 2018 to 2022


Table 6
Incidents of online sexual offences against children and accused persons in police-reported online child sexual exploitation, by province or territory, Canada, 2018 to 2022
Table summary
This table displays the results of Incidents of online sexual offences against children and accused persons in police-reported online child sexual exploitation. The information is grouped by Province or territory (appearing as row headers), Incidents of online sexual offences against children and Accused persons identified, calculated using number and average annual rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province or territory Incidents of online sexual offences against childrenTable 6 Note 1 Accused persons identifiedTable 6 Note 2
number average annual rateTable 6 Note 4 Table 6 Note 5 number average annual rateTable 6 Note 4 Table 6 Note 6
Newfoundland and Labrador 255 59 89 4
Prince Edward Island 58 39 34 5
Nova Scotia 384 46 302 7
New Brunswick 263 40 119 4
Quebec 3,764 48 3,272 9
OntarioTable 6 Note 3 2,695 20 2,647 4
Manitoba 609 39 411 7
Saskatchewan 261 19 166 3
Alberta 973 20 749 4
British Columbia 1,266 29 536 2
Yukon 24 59 25 14
Northwest Territories 44 83 28 15
Nunavut 29 40 26 18
Canada 10,652 30 8,411 5
Note 1

Includes sexual violations against children and other sexual offences where a victim was identified as being a person younger than 18.

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Note 2

Calculations are based on accused persons identified in connection with an incident where an online child sexual exploitation offence (including child pornography) was identified as the cyber violation. Children under 12 years of age cannot be prosecuted for criminal activities and, as such, are excluded. Also excludes accused persons where the gender was unknown, and gender diverse persons due to small data counts.

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Note 3

Excludes a small number of incidents reported by the National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre, but which were included in the total for calculating the proportions.

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Note 4

This rate is the average of the annual rates from 2018 to 2022.

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Note 5

Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population of children and youth under age 18. Populations are based upon July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography.

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Note 6

Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population aged 12 and over. Populations are based upon July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography.

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Note: An incident is considered to be an online incident if it was flagged as a cybercrime. An incident is flagged as a cybercrime when the crime targets information and communication technology (ICT), or when the crime used ICT to commit the offence. ICT includes, but is not limited to, the Internet, computers, servers, digital technology, digital telecommunications devices, phones and networks. Crimes committed over text and through messages using social media platforms are also considered cybercrime activity. Sum of the parts do not add up to the total due to the inclusion of incidents reported by the National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre. Prior to 2020, the number of cybercrimes is an undercount as some police services were unable to report the cybercrime indicator for all years. The data exclude the Quebec City Police in 2014 and 2015, the municipal police service of Calgary from 2014 to 2016, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) from 2014 to 2017 and both the Saint John Police Force and the Canadian Forces Military Police from 2014 to 2019. For 2022, the data exclude Dryden, a detachment of the OPP.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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