Table 6
Police-reported drug offences, by type of drug, by province and territory, 2007
[an error occurred while processing this directive]85-002-x[an error occurred while processing this directive]
[an error occurred while processing this directive]
Province and territory | Total drugs | Cannabis | Cocaine | Heroin | Other drugs1 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
number | rate2 | number | rate2 | number | rate2 | number | rate2 | number | rate2 | |
Newfoundland and Labrador | 857 | 169.3 | 624 | 123.3 | 142 | 28.0 | 1 | 0.2 | 90 | 17.8 |
Prince Edward Island | 197 | 142.1 | 114 | 82.2 | 45 | 32.5 | 2 | 1.4 | 36 | 26.0 |
Nova Scotia | 2,506 | 268.3 | 1,803 | 193.0 | 352 | 37.7 | 0 | 0.0 | 351 | 37.6 |
New Brunswick | 1,874 | 249.9 | 1,276 | 170.2 | 256 | 34.1 | 6 | 0.8 | 334 | 44.5 |
Quebec | 20,357 | 264.3 | 14,194 | 184.3 | 2,275 | 29.5 | 60 | 0.8 | 3,828 | 49.7 |
Ontario | 31,018 | 242.3 | 18,653 | 145.7 | 7,493 | 58.5 | 171 | 1.3 | 4,701 | 36.7 |
Manitoba | 2,466 | 207.8 | 1,409 | 118.7 | 780 | 65.7 | 2 | 0.2 | 275 | 23.2 |
Saskatchewan | 2,851 | 286.0 | 1,962 | 196.8 | 508 | 51.0 | 5 | 0.5 | 376 | 37.7 |
Alberta | 9,092 | 261.7 | 4,876 | 140.4 | 3,272 | 94.2 | 17 | 0.5 | 927 | 26.7 |
British Columbia | 28,632 | 653.7 | 17,034 | 388.9 | 7,505 | 171.3 | 533 | 12.2 | 3,560 | 81.3 |
Yukon | 209 | 674.4 | 121 | 390.5 | 66 | 213.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 22 | 71.0 |
Northwest Territories | 456 | 1,069.5 | 304 | 713.0 | 115 | 269.7 | 0 | 0.0 | 37 | 86.8 |
Nunavut | 160 | 514.3 | 140 | 450.0 | 10 | 32.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 10 | 32.1 |
Canada | 100,675 | 305.3 | 62,510 | 189.6 | 22,819 | 69.2 | 797 | 2.4 | 14,547 | 44.1 |
1. Other drugs include all other illicit drugs not otherwise stated, e.g. crystal meth, ecstasy, "date rape" drugs, LSD, barbiturates, chemical precursors, etc. 2. Rates are calculated per 100,000 population. Population estimates are from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Aggregate Uniform Crime Reporting Survey. |
- Date modified: