Statistics Canada: Existing records on victims aged 16 and 17 of sexual offences
12 Sept 2026 · Access to Information Act
The due date passed 13 Oct with no answer and no file number. 15 Oct: the same 14 numbers requested under s. 4(3), and the file escalated to the Chief Statistician.
Request under the Access to Information Act - existing records on victims aged 16 and 17 of sexual offences and the releasability threshold of table 35-10-0217
Attention: Pierre Desrochers, Director, Access to Information and Privacy, R.H. Coats Building, 2nd Floor, 100 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0T6.
Hello.
I make this request under section 6 of the Access to Information Act. I am a resident of Canada. This request asks for records that already exist. It does not ask the agency to produce a new tabulation.
Context, for search purposes. On 4 September 2026 I asked for a custom tabulation of victims aged 16 and 17 of police-reported sexual offences by age of the accused. The file is CAS-1217087. On 11 September 2026 Statistics Canada replied that table 35-10-0217-01 is already produced at the threshold of releasability, and that further disaggregation would present considerable disclosure risks.
1. All existing tabulations, data runs, working files or outputs held by the Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics that separate victims aged 16 and 17 of police-reported sexual offences from the aggregate group aged 17 and younger, produced at any time since 1 January 2012.
2. All existing tabulations or outputs that cross the age of the victim with the age of the accused person for sexual offences, produced at any time since 1 January 2012, including any produced for a Juristat article, for another federal department, or for a province.
3. All records setting out the methodology, rules or thresholds by which the age groupings in table 35-10-0217 were chosen, and all records assessing the disclosure risk of releasing victims aged 16 and 17 as a separate group.
4. All records of the assessment carried out in file CAS-1217087, including the consultation with the subject matter division and any written opinion recorded in it.
5. All records showing whether the figure published in the Juristat article on police-reported sexual offences against children and youth, 2012, that 82 percent of accused persons were over the age of 18 where the victim was 16 or 17, has been recalculated or updated at any time since publication.
6. All correspondence between Statistics Canada and the Department of Justice concerning data on victims aged 16 and 17 of sexual offences, dated between 1 January 2020 and the date this request is processed.
Where the agency holds no record answering any numbered item above, I require a written statement to that effect for that item, identifying the offices searched.
I request the records in electronic format.
Fees. I am without income and I am unable to pay the application fee. I request a waiver of the fee under subsection 11(6) of the Act. The records concern the measurement of sexual offences against children, and the public benefit of their release is direct. If the waiver is refused, I ask to be advised in writing of the refusal and the reason for it.
I require registration of this request on the date of its receipt and a file number in writing.
A refusal to register this request until a fee is paid, an absence of a file number, or a failure to issue a decision within the time required by the Act will be placed before the Information Commissioner of Canada under section 30.
Respectfully,
Danilo Dzyuban