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Crime Up Slightly In Canada

Our friends in Canuckistan seem to be having a wee problem with some undesirable persons they've let into their country:

The situation is so bad that in the Jan. 3 edition of Canada’s National Post, writer David Frum startled readers by revealing that “Canada’s overall crime rate is now 50% higher than the crime rate in the United States.” (emphasis mine) He further noted, “Since the early 1990s, crime rates have dropped in 48 of the 50 states and 80% of American cities. Over that same period, crime rates have risen in six of the 10 Canadian provinces and in seven of Canada’s 10 biggest cities.”

Look at the most recent complete data available from both countries. In 2003, the violent crime rate in the United States was 475 per 100,000 population, while up north, there were 963 violent crimes per 100,000 population. The figure for sexual assault in Canada per 100,000 population was more than double that of the United States, 74 as opposed to 32.1, and the assault rate in Canada was also more than twice that of the states, 746 to our 295 for the population rate.

But the good news is that Leftist Governance has embarked on its usual course, and that's... MORE GUN CONTROL! Whoo, just what Canada needs, gun control of law abiding citizens to disarm them and empower the criminals in the middle of their crime wave!

It's enough to make your hair go gray; these Socialists are so pathologically oriented towards the destruction of traditional ideals that they worship the "downtrodden"/criminal element, hoping that they can find solace in empowering the "proletariat" (yes, I suspect they use Trotskyite terms when they think of "Da Pipoles" and their "noble struggle" against "the bourgeoisie") to "act out" against the "ravages of capitalism and oppression."

I think that the people of Canuckistan may be on the right course, however; they have recently elected a somewhat more moderate government after many eons of Leftist flatulant stupidity. That government is attempting to roll back some of the lunatic efforts of the prior administrations. We shall see how successful it becomes. I believe that "Da Pipoles" are tired of the relentlessly self-destructive tone of the Left in the Great White North, and want to get back to a zone of sanity.

posted by: underwhelmed at May 08, 2006 23:08 | link | comments |

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