Organization: Statistics Canada
Year: 2020
Month: December
Request Number: A-2019-00440
Request Summary: Any documents that: announce and describe consultations with the general public prior to eliminating sex as a category in crime statistics; define which governmental and non-governmental organizations Statistics Canada consulted with in eliminating sex as a category for reporting crime; contain advice from outside groups or advocacy groups to drop sex as a category for reporting statistics on crime, and to replace sex with gender; were produced explaining why gender should replace sex in the reporting of criminal activity. An official publication of Statistics Canada that defines the following key terms in reporting statistics on crime, as well as the census: "man", "woman", "sex", "gender", "gender identity", "trans", "transsexual" and "transgender".
Disposition: Disclosed in part
Number of pages: 42