Table 6
Sex trade cases completed in adult criminal court, by type of offence, Canada, 2009/2010 to 2023/2024

Table 6 Sex trade cases completed in adult criminal court, by type of offence, Canada, 2009/2010 to 2023/2024
Table summary
The information is grouped by Offence (appearing as row headers), 2009/2010-2013/2014, 2014/2015-2018/2019 and 2019/2020-2023/2024, calculated using number units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Offence 2009/2010-2013/2014 2014/2015-2018/2019 2019/2020-2023/2024
number
Note ...

not applicable

Note 0

true zero or a value rounded to zero

Note 1

Sections 212(1), 212(2), 212(4) and 213(1)(c) of the Criminal Code were repealed under the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act.

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Note 2

Sections 286.1, 286.2, 286.3, 286.4 and 213(1.1) of the Criminal Code were enacted under the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act.

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Note 3

Paragraphs (a) and (b) in section 213(1) of the Criminal Code were amended under the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act.

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Note: A case is one or more charges against an accused person or company that were processed by the courts at the same time and received a final decision. Cases that involve more than one charge are represented by the most serious offence. Includes cases where a sex trade-related offence was the most serious offence in the case. Cases where detailed subsection information was not recorded are excluded from offence counts rows, but are included in the total line of offence counts, therefore the sum of the offences may not equal the total. Data exclude information from superior courts in Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan as well as municipal courts in Quebec due to the unavailability of data. Superior court information for Prince Edward Island was also unavailable until 2018/2019. Data for Quebec were not available for 2021/2022, 2022/2023 and 2023/2024.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Integrated Criminal Court Survey.
Total cases involving offences related to the sex trade Table 6 Note 1 Table 6 Note 2 Table 6 Note 3 5,521 2,099 1,290
Offences associated with the purchasing of sexual services 94 1,328 836
Obtaining sexual services for consideration from a minor (s. 212(4)) 94 67 5
Obtaining sexual services for consideration from a minor (s. 286.1(2)) ... not applicable 54 91
Obtaining sexual services for consideration from an adult (s. 286.1(1)) ... not applicable 1,085 736
Offences associated with profiting from the sale of sexual services 486 508 404
Offences related to procuring or receiving material benefit changed with the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act 482 473 371
Living on the avails of prostitution of a minor (s. 212(2)) 66 51 0
Receiving material benefit from sexual services provided by a minor (s. 286.2(2)) ... not applicable 35 23
Receiving material benefit from sexual services provided by an adult (s. 286.2(1)) ... not applicable 64 80
Procuring (s. 170, 171, 212(1)) 416 224 79
Procuring of a minor (s. 286.3(2)) ... not applicable 24 32
Procuring of an adult (s. 286.3(1)) ... not applicable 75 157
Advertising sexual services (s. 286.4) ... not applicable 30 32
Offences associated with stopping or communicating 4,941 263 50
Stopping or impeding traffic, or communicating for the purposes of engaging in prostitution or obtaining the sexual services of a prostitute (s. 213) 4,920 166 0
Stopping or impeding traffic for the purposes of offering, providing or obtaining sexual services for consideration (s. 213(1)) 3 22 3
Communicating to provide sexual services for consideration (s. 213(1.1)) ... not applicable 4 0
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