Context This dataset is the anonymized result of responses submitted to a survey collected by the Canadian Department of Justice in 2016. This survey "...focuses on the criminal justice system (CJS) to inform the current criminal justice system review...[this] involved a traditional public opinion research survey, in informed choice survey and in person and online focus groups...this work was undertaken to support reforms and new initiatives in this area." This dataset is the survey component of this review. Content Respondents were asked over 50 questions on their perception of how the Canadian Justice system works at large. This dataset was published in a typical survey output format, in that most questions are 1-10 rating scales or 0-1 True/False questions, with some free-text responses intermixed. To understand the fields, please see the attached data dictionary, or otherwise access it [here](http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/trans/open-ouvert/rsd-drs/njs2016-snj2016/njs2016_dd_en.xlsx). Acknowledgements This data was published as-is by the Government of Canada, [here](http://canada.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/jr/index.html). It is licensed under the [Open Government License - Canada](http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada). Inspiration In a time of increasingly invective dialogue between police forces and the people they police, this dataset provides a window on the general level of satisfaction and concern that Canadian government citizens have with their country's justice systems. These results are mostly generalizable to the developed world as a whole.