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Table 1
Police-reported incidents of human trafficking, by statute and province or territory, 2012 to 2022

Table 1
Police-reported incidents of human trafficking, by statute and province or territory, 2012 to 2022
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported incidents of human trafficking. The information is grouped by Province or territory (appearing as row headers), Human trafficking incidents reported in 2022, Human trafficking incidents reported in 2012 to 2022, Criminal Code, Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and Total, calculated using number, rate and average annual rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province or territory	Human trafficking incidents reported in 2022				Human trafficking incidents reported in 2012 to 2022
	Criminal Code	Immigration and Refugee Protection Act	Total		Criminal Code	Immigration and Refugee Protection Act	Total
	number			rate	number			average annual rate^{Table 1 Note 1}
Newfoundland and Labrador	3	1	4	0.8	8	4	12	0.2
Prince Edward Island	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0.0
Nova Scotia	45	1	46	4.5	235	100	335	3.1
New Brunswick	10	2	12	1.5	31	5	36	0.4
Quebec	36	1	37	0.4	360	33	393	0.4
Ontario	254	99	353	2.3	1,678	907	2,585	1.6
Manitoba	1	0	1	0.1	39	3	42	0.3
Saskatchewan	9	5	14	1.2	83	22	105	0.8
Alberta	22	6	28	0.6	194	66	260	0.5
British Columbia	29	1	30	0.6	205	11	216	0.4
Yukon	1	0	1	2.3	8	0	8	1.7
Northwest Territories	0	0	0	0.0	1	0	1	0.2
Nunavut	1	0	1	2.5	2	0	2	0.5
Canada^{Table 1 Note 2}	411	117	528	1.4	2,844	1,152	3,996	1.0
Note 1 This rate is the average of the annual rates from 2012 to 2022. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Under the authority of the Canadian Forces Provost Marshal, the Canadian Forces Military Police Group started reporting incidents to the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey in 2020. For this reason, provincial and territorial counts may not equal counts for Canada. Return to note 2 referrer Note: This table 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.

Date modified:: 2023-12-04