Reports From the Public Processed in 2023
Volume of reports processed by Cybertip.ca
(For the year 2023)
| Total Reports Processed |
| 27,429 |
Excludes all Project Arachnid reports processed by Cybertip.ca
Jurisdiction of origin, report to Cybertip.ca
(For the year 2023)
| Jurisdiction | Reports |
| Territories | 26 |
| PE | 29 |
| NL | 130 |
| SK | 545 |
| NB | 552 |
| MB | 1,044 |
| NS | 1,298 |
| AB | 1,498 |
| QC | 1,557 |
| BC | 2,003 |
| Unknown | 3,428 |
| ON | 6,710 |
| International | 8,609 |
| Total Reports | 27,429 |
"International" includes, but is not limited to, reports from individuals outside of Canada concerned about the sexual exploitation of a child.
Reports by incident type
(For the year 2023)
| Incident Type | Report |
| Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children | 2 |
| Making Sexually Explicit Material Available to a Child | 4 |
| Travelling to Sexually Exploit a Child | 49 |
| Non-Consensual Distribution of Intimate Images | 207 |
| Trafficking of Children | 421 |
| Luring a Child | 2,785 |
| Concerns About Online Harms to Children | 2,797 |
| Child Sexual Abuse Material (Possession, manufacture, distribution, and accessing of child pornography) | 21,164 |
Of the victims reported to Cybertip.ca, 28.7% were female, 39.7% were male, and 0.3% were otherGo to footnote 1; the gender for 31.3% was unknownGo to footnote 2.
| Number of URLs Submitted in Child Sexual Abuse Material Reports |
| 124,610 |
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 21,164 reports of CSAM, members of public submitted 124,610 URLs in these reports.
Reports forwarded to Canadian police/child welfare agencies
(For the year 2023)
| Province | Forwarded |
| YT | 2 |
| NT | 3 |
| PE | 11 |
| NU | 13 |
| NL | 28 |
| NB | 94 |
| NS | 116 |
| SK | 125 |
| MB | 337 |
| BC | 492 |
| AB | 498 |
| QC | 525 |
| ON | 1,319 |
| RCMP-NCECC | 2,282 |
Reports are sent to the RCMP's National Child Exploitation Crime Centre ( NCECC ) when triage shows victim/person of interest resides outside of Canada, or when the victim/person of interest's location is unknown.
Statistics as of January 1, 2023 – December 31, 2023
- 1 “Other” reflects individuals who identify as non-binary, non-gender conforming, or identify as another gender other than male or female. ↩
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2
In extortion situations, male victims are more frequently extorted for money (financial sextortion), whereas females are more often extorted for additional content (images/videos). As such, Cybertip.ca has seen that the primary target of financial sextortion has been males.
Cybertip.ca has experienced significant increases in reports related to financial sextortion, and therefore the proportion of male child victims has increased simultaneously. ↩