…So get over yourselves, liberals. That includes you, tough-guy wannabe Paul Martin (even with your official tough-guy-look campaign leather jacket on), and you too, junior, over there presiding within the corrupt walls of Toronto city hall. Mayor Miller is only slightly less intuitive and slightly less capable of dealing with law and order issues than fellow liberal-left compassionate-for-criminals Paul Martin, or Jack Layton from the you’ve got to be kidding party.
And they all look and sound as awkward and inept talking about “law and order” as they should.
And the three of them and many more like them —liberals all—can take the blame for the culture of victimhood and entitlement and disrespect and crime and lawlessness that Canadians in all urban and suburban centers are increasingly experiencing. In fact it would seem that to liberals, if some community standards or decency or laws are tough to enforce, their attitude is to make them legal. That keeps the crime rate down! That’s the thinking of an imbecile—or at best someone who has given up on Canada.
Sensible Canadians know better, and thank God there’s lots of them—millions and millions—around. Many of them will vote for a conservative candidate on January 23 to help stop Canada from mindlessly straying further into territory that takes decades or generations to reverse.
Here’s a snippet from a column by the great David Frum today in the National Post:
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1) America’s crime problem has dramatically improved, while Canada’s is becoming seriously worse. Toronto’s 78 homicides in 2005 appears to compare favorably to the homicide totals of the three American cities cited by the Star. But those 78 Toronto homicides in 2005 represent a 28% increase over the 61 homicides recorded in Toronto in 1995. Meanwhile, the three U.S. cities cited by the Star each achieved dramatic decreases over the past decade: Chicago down 46% from 823, Washington down 46% from 365, Baltimore down 17% from 322.
More broadly: Canada’s overall crime rate is now 50% higher than the crime rate in the United States. Read that again slowly—it seems incredible, but it’s true. It’s true too that you are now more likely to be mugged in Toronto than in New York City.
2) America’s crime problem is becoming concentrated in ever fewer places, while Canada’s is spreading out to ever more places.
The United States is a huge country, and it will always be possible to find a jurisdiction with shocking crime numbers. The overwhelming majority of Americans, however, live in places that are becoming steadily safer. 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.
3) While American cities and states are adopting anti-crime policies proved to work, Canadian cities and provinces are adopting policies proved to fail.
Over a decade of successful crime-fighting in the U.S., criminologists and police departments have learned some important lessons.
Bluntly: prison works. Criminals do not commit crimes while they are held in prison. Yet a Canadian criminal is 80% less likely to go to jail than his American counterpart.
Putting police on the streets works. Yet Canada employs 25% fewer police officers per capita than the United States.
Enforcing laws against vagrancy, prostitution and drug dealing works. Yet Canada is either decriminalizing or tolerating all three. The right kinds of gun laws work too: for example, extending the sentence of any criminal who commits any crime—down to jaywalking—while in possession of a gun. […]
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