Ottawa, ON – After nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, our once-safe towns and cities have become rife with crime and chaos. Trudeau’s radical catch-and-release policies have set violent repeat offenders loose on our streets.
Canada’s worsening public safety was made evident again today through a Fraser Institute report into crime trends between the United States and Canada. Between 2014 and 2022, the violent crime rate in Canada increased by 43.8 percent to 434.1 violent crimes per 100,000 people.
This means Canada’s violent crime rate is 14 percent higher than that of the United States’, which only recorded 380.7 violent crimes per 100,000 people.
On top of this, between 2014 and 2022, the property crime rate in Canada increased by 7 percent, reaching 2,491 crimes per 100,000 people. This is 27 percent higher than the property crime rate in the US, which declined by 24.1 percent between 2014 and 2022. Additionally, the number of property crimes in Canada was lower than that of the United States’ until Justin Trudeau was elected Prime Minister in 2015.
Homicides are also up in Canada. Although our homicide rate per 100,000 people remains lower than the United States, it has still increased by 53.5 percent between 2014 to 2022.
Canadians deserve to feel safe in their communities. Only Common Sense Conservatives will bring home safe streets by ending Justin Trudeau’s catch-and-release justice system and bringing jail, not bail, for repeat violent offenders.