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Justice spending

	1996-1997	1997-1998	1998-1999	1999-2000	2000-2001
	$ millions
Justice spending	9,998	10,199	10,636	10,550	11,141
Police	5,856	5,989	6,210	6,394	6,801
Adult corrections	1,969	2,077	2,200	2,365	2,454
Courts1	859	907	955	997	1,039
Legal aid plans2	536	455	494	487	512
Prosecutions1	265	271	278	307	335
Youth corrections3	513	199	498	..	..
.. : not available for a specific period of time. 1. In order to allow annual comparisons, court expenditures for 1997-1998 and 1999-2000 are estimated, based on the average between the reporting years immediately preceding and following the reference period. Prosecutions expenditures for 1997-1998 and 1999-2000 were estimated in similar manner. 2. These expenditures represent spending by legal aid plans only and may not equal government contributions to legal aid plans in a given year. 3. Youth corrections costs are estimates. The figures likely underestimate total costs. Source: Statistics Canada, Catalogue no. 85-002-X, Vol. 22, No.11. Last modified: April 1,2003.

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