Table 3
Police-reported Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) violations, by type of substance, by census metropolitan area, 2013

Table 3
Police-reported Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) violations, by type of substance, by census metropolitan area, 2013
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) violations, by type of substance, by census metropolitan area, 2013. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (appearing as row headers), Type of substance, Total, Cannabis, Cocaine, Methamphetamines and Other CDSA, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan
areaNote 1,Note 2,Note 3		 Type of substance Total
Cannabis Cocaine Methamphetamines Other CDSANote 4
number rate number rate number rate number rate number rate
Kelowna 1,043 563 355 192 77 42 164 89 1,639 885
Vancouver 7,392 302 2,077 85 631 26 1,240 51 11,340 464
GatineauNote 5 988 306 126 39 203 63 160 50 1,477 457
Regina 492 210 397 169 19 8 125 53 1,033 441
Abbotsford-Mission 422 238 134 76 65 37 120 68 741 418
Victoria 999 280 279 78 71 20 140 39 1,489 417
Sherbrooke 554 285 50 26 27 14 129 66 760 390
Trois-Rivières 377 244 51 33 85 55 35 23 548 355
Greater Sudbury 264 160 143 87 1 1 148 90 556 337
Brantford 300 211 87 61 5 4 70 49 462 325
Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo 1,205 225 179 33 42 8 266 50 1,692 316
Halifax 977 239 182 45 3 1 106 26 1,268 310
Hamilton 1,474 201 326 44 10 1 249 34 2,059 280
London 751 150 172 34 110 22 317 63 1,350 269
Guelph 271 211 28 22 15 12 22 17 336 261
Edmonton 1,964 152 783 61 333 26 292 23 3,372 261
St. John's 289 143 52 26 0 0 178 88 519 256
Barrie 303 146 114 55 2 1 106 51 525 252
Saskatoon 506 169 126 42 41 14 80 27 753 252
Saint John 247 169 62 42 0 0 58 40 367 251
Moncton 253 176 45 31 12 8 42 29 352 245
Québec 1,145 146 139 18 106 13 382 49 1,772 225
Saguenay 243 145 32 19 60 36 33 20 368 219
Montréal 5,830 146 961 24 315 8 1,566 39 8,672 218
Toronto 7,639 129 2,119 36 137 2 1,422 24 11,317 192
Windsor 382 116 89 27 10 3 129 39 610 185
OttawaNote 6 1,234 127 375 38 6 1 177 18 1,792 184
Peterborough 157 129 30 25 1 1 25 21 213 175
St.Catharines-Niagara 532 119 145 33 16 4 84 19 777 174
Kingston 135 82 54 33 34 21 55 34 278 170
Winnipeg 574 72 379 47 6 1 193 24 1,152 144
Calgary 1,110 81 519 38 47 3 100 7 1,776 129
Thunder Bay 86 71 43 35 0 0 27 22 156 128
CMA total 40,138 166 10,653 44 2,490 10 8,240 34 61,521 255
Non-CMA total 33,135 301 6,792 62 2,131 19 5,478 50 47,536 432
Canada 73,273 208 17,445 50 4,621 13 13,718 39 109,057 310
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, other 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.

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Note 2.

CMA populations have been adjusted to follow policing boundaries.

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Note 3.

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 4.

Includes heroin, ecstasy, and other controlled drugs and substances, as well as precursors and equipment.

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Note 5.

Gatineau refers to the Quebec part of the Ottawa–Gatineau CMA.

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Note 6.

Ottawa refers to the Ontario part of the Ottawa–Gatineau CMA.

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Note: Police-reported statistics may be affected by differences in the way police services deal with minor offences. In some instances, police or municipalities might choose to deal with some minor offences using municipal by-laws or provincial provisions rather than Criminal Code provisions. Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple violations. Data for specific types of crime by census metropolitan area are available from 1991. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Percentage changes are based on unrounded rates. Populations are based on July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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