Reports From the Public Processed in 2021
Volume of reports processed by Cybertip.ca
(For the year 2021)
Total Reports Processed |
20,792 |
Excludes all Project Arachnid reports processed by Cybertip.ca
Volume of reports processed by Cybertip.ca for 2021 should not be compared to previous years as changes to the online public reporting form was modified to allow for multiple reports to be filed under a single submission.
Jurisdiction of origin, report to Cybertip.ca
(For the year 2021)
Jurisdiction | Reports |
Territories | 12 |
PE | 23 |
NB | 177 |
NL | 262 |
SK | 341 |
MB | 814 |
NS | 1,240 |
BC | 1,249 |
AB | 1,347 |
QC | 1,368 |
Unknown | 1,980 |
ON | 5,785 |
International | 6,194 |
"International" includes, but is not limited to reports from individuals outside of Canada concerned about the sexual exploitation of a child as well as reports of websites hosted in Canada from non-Canadian cybertip organizations.
Reports by incident type
(For the year 2021)
Incident Type | Report |
Child Sex Tourism | 30 |
Child Prostitution | 81 |
Agreement or Arrangement with another Person to Commit a Sexual Offence Against a Child | 86 |
Child Trafficking | 96 |
Making Sexually Explicit Material Available to a Child | 165 |
Harmful to Children | 323 |
Luring | 893 |
Non-Consensual Distribution of Intimate Images (of an individual under 18 years of age) | 1,380 |
Child Pornography | 17,738 |
Of the victims reported to Cybertip.ca, 64% were female and 26% were male; the gender for 10% was unknown.
Number of URLs Submitted in Child Sexual Abuse Material Reports |
21,638 |
When submitting a CSAM report to Cybertip.ca, members of the public can include multiple URLs they wish to report. These URLs can be submitted within a single report. Across the 17,738 reports of CSAM, members of public submitted 21,638 URLs in these reports.
Reports forwarded to Canadian police/child welfare agencies
(For the year 2021)
Jurisdiction | Forwarded |
NT | 1 |
NU | 1 |
YT | 4 |
PE | 6 |
NL | 15 |
NB | 28 |
NS | 38 |
SK | 44 |
MB | 134 |
AB | 199 |
BC | 225 |
QC | 269 |
ON | 554 |
RCMP-NCECC | 1,236 |
Reports are sent to the RCMP's National Child Exploitation Crime Centre ( NCECC ) when triage shows victim/person of interest resides outside of Canada.
Statistics as of October 1, 2022