Reports From the Public Processed in 2020
Volume of reports processed by Cybertip.ca
(For the year 2020)
Total Reports Processed |
33,903 |
Excludes all Project Arachnid reports processed by Cybertip.ca
Jurisdiction of origin, report to Cybertip.ca
(For the year 2020)
Jurisdiction | Reports |
Territories | 11 |
PE | 42 |
NL | 69 |
NB | 229 |
SK | 383 |
Unknown | 561 |
NS | 723 |
MB | 925 |
AB | 1,109 |
BC | 1,371 |
QC | 1,536 |
ON | 9,207 |
International | 16,545 |
Total Reports | 33,903 |
"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 2020)
Incident Type | Report |
Child Trafficking | 46 |
Child Sex Tourism | 48 |
Child Prostitution | 60 |
Agreement or Arrangement with another Person to Commit a Sexual Offence Against a Child | 130 |
Making Sexually Explicit Material Available to a Child | 227 |
Luring | 744 |
Non-Consensual Distribution of Intimate Images (of an individual under 18 years of age) | 935 |
Child Pornography | 31,713 |
When sex is known, 64% of victims reported to Cybertip.ca were female, 26% were male.
Number of URLs Submitted in Child Sexual Abuse Material Reports |
37,273 |
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 31,713 reports of CSAM, members of public submitted 37,273 URLs in these reports.
Reports forwarded to Canadian police/child welfare agencies
(For the year 2020)
Jurisdiction | Forwarded |
YT | 1 |
NT | 2 |
NL | 14 |
SK | 25 |
NS | 25 |
NB | 27 |
MB | 96 |
BC | 163 |
AB | 168 |
QC | 219 |
ON | 444 |
RCMP-NCECC | 2,951 |
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, 2021